Development of a Hybrid Actuation Hand Exoskeleton with Redundant Compliant Mechanisms.

Exoskeleton robots are currently widely used in the field of rehabilitation medicine to effectively assist patients with hand function loss in their rehabilitation training. To accommodate the physiological characteristics of the hand, particularly the deviation of the joint rotation axis, this paper proposes a hybrid-driven hand exoskeleton system with redundant compliant mechanisms and conducts motion and force analysis on it. The exoskeleton system can independently drive three fingers and drive their joints separately. To verify whether the exoskeleton system meets the rehabilitation requirements, angle verification experiments and object grasping experiments were conducted. The results showed that the maximum joint range of motion of the exoskeleton system reached 66 °, with an average joint range of motion of 55 ° , fully meeting the rehabilitation needs.