Prosthetic Robotic Hand

The human hand is a complex apparatus. Losing a hand is an extremely traumatic event that changes forever one's life. To replace the human hand with a mechanical analogue is therefore difficult. It is simpler, as with traditional robotics, to replace individual functions with manipulators of different configurations rather than use a single multi-functional device. This book is targeted mechanical design, contact-mechanics modeling, and experimental investigations of robotic hand for prosthesis. This book is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. Chapter 2 presents a review of historical introduction of prosthetics, mechanisms, and mechanical contact modeling in robotic hands. Chapter 3 concerns with the theoretical analysis of a prosthetic robotic hand. Also, this chapter deals with the modeling of contact mechanics and nonlinear stiffness for hemicylindrical soft fingers contacts. Chapter 4 presents the experimental work involving the method of manufacturing a prototype robotic hand for prosthesis. Furthermore, experiments are conducted to validate the theory of the power-law equation. Results & conclusions are presented in chapter 5 &6.

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Dr. Sadeq Hussein Bakhy is a lecturer at the Mechanical Engineering Department - University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1976. He has published and presented several papers in national and international journals and conferences regarding the applied mechanics , robot, and optimization.