Development of pneumatic rehabilitation gloves based on McKibben actuator (Helping Hand)

Arifin, Mohammed Iqbal (2025) Development of pneumatic rehabilitation gloves based on McKibben actuator (Helping Hand). Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In past few years, stroke is said to be Malaysia’s third leading cause of death, with a considerable percentage of survivors suffering hand and arm dysfunction. For the past few year, there is a positive development of hand rehabilitation gloves to help stroke survivor to conduct ADL task. Nevertheless, few research have discovered that the past hand rehabilitation gloves are expansive and heavy in weight that are not suitable for daily use of the stroke survivor therapy. Thus, this research aims to improve the hand rehabilitation system by reducing the cost and weight of the gloves or system that are easy to used for daily rehabilitiation therapy. Firstly, the hardware design are made such as the major and minor component of the system to make sure the component are carefully and suitably selected. Secondly, the software design is also made using Arduino IDE to programme the source code that are responsible for the motion of the system. The parameter of ‘Helping Hand’ is also set up to measure the related data that need to be record and analysed to test the effectiveness of the system. The study method can make the ‘Helping Hand’ glove to aid an assistance for the stroke survivor to fulfil the ADL needs in addition to the cost and weight reduced gloves. This research and developement of ‘Helping Hand’ gloves show it importance aspect in hand rehabilitation gloves field. This research promotes the application of simple yet cost effective and weight reduced gloves or system in stroke rehabilitation.

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