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Development of Multi-Fingered Prosthetic Hand Using Shape Memory Alloy Type Artificial Muscle

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  title={Development of Multi-Fingered Prosthetic Hand Using Shape Memory Alloy Type Artificial Muscle},
  author={Jae Hoon Lee and Shingo Okamoto and Shinji Matsubara},
  year={2012}
}
A new prosthetic hand with a fixed thumb and four fingers actuated by Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) type artificial muscle has been developed in this paper. Different from typical geared motor, SMA actuator is lightweight and silent, however shows a little short stroke and small attracting force per each unit. In order to achieve enough output force and motion range of each finger, multiple SMA type artificial muscles with special device which facilitates enough length are equipped in the hand. The… 
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