Research on prosthetic hand modeling based on ADAMS and MATLAB

In this paper, we use ADAMS to design a model of intelligent prosthetic hand, which has the high humanoid shape, its weight and size are similar to adults hand The proposed model has 16 degrees of freedom (dofs), which are split into 14 dofs for the five fingers, and 2 dofs for the wrist. The model allows the execution of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) like grasp, wrist turn and so on, in order to the research the control algorithm of the prosthetic hand, Integration of ADAMS with MATLAB for designing and developing prosthetic hand system is presented in this paper. The model can complete simple movements by proportional control algorithm.