Research on a New Structure of Hand Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation Usage

Hand exoskeletons for rehabilitation usage are devices for helping the stroke patients who are suffering from hand function disabilities. The present hand exoskeleton devices are cumbersome and too big in size, and are inconvenient in patients' daily life because of lacking of portability and reliability. In this paper, a new type of portable hand exoskeleton device is proposed to solve such problems as mentioned above. Issues such as the experimental setup, the mechanical design, the system configuration of the hand exoskeleton device are introduced, and evaluations toward motion characteristics are also be discussed.