Powered upper limb prosthesis pruviding system
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Active Prosthesis for Upper Limb
Only few artificial limbs for total upper arm replacement includes other active joints than those of hand and elbow. The main cause is the difficulty to the set up the limb command system. Some components of artificial upper arm have been recently designed and built by the our research group. The full arm consists of a two active axes shoulder and a single axis elbow, plus a commercial hand. Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese journal of ergonomics
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0549-4974,1884-2844
DOI: 10.5100/jje.14.279