Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients
Our initial testing saw the nylon strings tangling with one another. Hence, to prevent such wire entanglements, we decided to use tubings that will guide the wires all the way from the fingers to the motor spool. The use of
Considering the pros and cons of the previous 2 ideas for the attachment of the motor housings on the side and on the arm, we came up with a third idea which we are implementing in our final product. Instead
As seen from the previous post, we made a first attempt of putting the motor housing on the forearm on the hand. This proved to be not feasible. Considering the fact that our product is mainly for the purpose of
As previously mentioned, we would be attempting to attach our motors directly onto our arms. This would allow the user to conveniently carry the device around. Our attempt at doing this can be seen in Figure 1 below. Figure 1:
Now that we have more or less finished putting the exoskeleton together, we decided to move on with deciding where to place and secure the motor. We are currently working with the idea of placing the servo motors on our
In our previous post, we used stainless steel (from stainless steel cable ties) to create our snap-on rings. While it was functional as a ring, we felt that we could do better with a material that is slightly more rigid
Force Required In order to facilitate rehabilitation, an important function of our device is to open the hands of patients who experience spasticity. To do this, our device must be able to overcome the muscle tone in a spastic patient’s
Moving on from our previous efforts to put the whole structure of the exoskeleton together, we changed the rings that were used to secure the ring to the fingers, which were previously too weak to hold the parts down and
In our very first assembly of the whole glove, the attachment of the glove was made possible using felt. The felt pieces were wrapped around the palm and wrist, and then clipped on using an elephant clip. However, we realised
With modifications made to the general slider design (described in the previous post), we decided to work on printing out the pieces for the rest of the fingers (middle, ring, thumb and pinky). Once that was done, we also tried