Development of Glove Controlled Prosthetic Hand

Kew, Mun Yew (2013) Development of Glove Controlled Prosthetic Hand. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Prosthetic hands are artificial devices that are utilized to approximate the appearance and function of a natural hand. This thesis proposed a similar sized and light weight prosthetic hand designed and concerned about the possibility of using data glove to control a 5 fingers prosthetic hand. The finger of prosthetic hand which has 3 degree of freedom is designed to make it able to bending like human hand finger. Data glove act as control device to provide the control signal to microcontroller when the prosthetic hand fingers starts bending. The Servo Motor drive is use to drive the sector of each robot hand’s finger. Furthermore, the servo motor can only provide a low torque for the finger, so prosthetic hand only can only generate a suitable force for each finger. All then behavior and movement of the robot are process by a single PIC 18F4550 microcontroller. The data glove controller has real time control over the prosthetic hand. So it can emulate a human hand such as grasping object. With further research and development, the robot hand can be used to implement prosthetic arm.

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