Design of a Rectangular-type Finger Rehabilitation Robot

Gab-Soon Kim, Hyeon-Min Kim, Young-Guk Kim, Hee-Suk Shin, Jungwon Yoon

2012

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a finger-rehabilitation robot for rehabilitating stroke patients' fingers and other patient’s paralyzed fingers. The developed finger rehabilitation robot is composed of a thumb-rehabilitation robot instrument and four finger rehabilitation robot instruments. The finger-rehabilitation robot could exercise fingers of patient for their rehabilitation. A control characteristic test of the developed rectangular-type finger-rehabilitation robot was carried out, and the results confirmed that the robot could be used for the flexibility rehabilitation exercise for the fingers of normal person and patients.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kim G., Kim H., Kim Y., Shin H. and Yoon J. (2012). Design of a Rectangular-type Finger Rehabilitation Robot . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-22-8, pages 443-446. DOI: 10.5220/0004033204430446

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco12,
author={Gab-Soon Kim and Hyeon-Min Kim and Young-Guk Kim and Hee-Suk Shin and Jungwon Yoon},
title={Design of a Rectangular-type Finger Rehabilitation Robot},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2012},
pages={443-446},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004033204430446},
isbn={978-989-8565-22-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Design of a Rectangular-type Finger Rehabilitation Robot
SN - 978-989-8565-22-8
AU - Kim G.
AU - Kim H.
AU - Kim Y.
AU - Shin H.
AU - Yoon J.
PY - 2012
SP - 443
EP - 446
DO - 10.5220/0004033204430446