IEEE transactions on haptics
Jun 20, 2023
We present a novel soft exoskeleton providing active support for hand closing and opening. The main novelty is a different tendon routing, folded laterally on both sides of the hand, and adding clenching forces when the exoskeleton is activated. It i...
Scientific reports
Jun 8, 2023
Recently, several studies have proposed methods for measuring cuffless blood pressure (BP) using finger photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals. This study presents a new BP estimation system that measures PPG signals under progressive finger pressure, maki...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jun 5, 2023
Machine and deep learning techniques have received increasing attentions in estimating finger forces from high-density surface electromyography (HDsEMG), especially for neural interfacing. However, most machine learning models are normally employed a...
Biological cybernetics
May 24, 2023
In a partially impaired anthropomorphic hand, maintaining the movement coordination of the robotic digits with the central nervous system (CNS) and natural digits is crucial for robust performance. A challenge in the control perspective of movement c...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Mar 31, 2023
Humans use periodically ridged fingertips to precisely perceive the characteristics of objects via ion-based fast- and slow-adaptive mechanotransduction. However, designing artificial ionic skins with fingertip-like tactile capabilities remains chall...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 15, 2023
The need for contactless vascular biometric systems has significantly increased. In recent years, deep learning has proven to be efficient for vein segmentation and matching. Palm and finger vein biometrics are well researched; however, research on w...
Soft robotics
Feb 28, 2023
Robot grippers that lack physical compliance have a difficult time dealing with uncertainty, such as fragile objects that may not have well-defined shapes. Existing soft robotic grippers require a large empty workspace for their actuated fingers to c...
Soft robotics
Feb 14, 2023
In this study, we investigated the effect of the presence or absence of fingernails on precision grasping using artificial anthropomimetic fingers. We hypothesized that fingernails improve precision grasping performance by increasing the friction coe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 10, 2023
Personal identification using analysis of the internal and external characteristics of the human finger is currently an intensively developed topic. The work in this field concerns new methods of feature extraction and image analysis, mainly using mo...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 10, 2023
In the field of soft robotics, knowledge of material science is becoming more and more important. However, many researchers have a background in only one of both domains. To aid the understanding of the other domain, this tutorial describes the compl...