• Aim of this research
• Tesi Disponibili (Italian)
• Dedicated Website
• Projects

Project Leader: Maria Chiara Carrozza

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Aim of this research

The design and the development of prosthetic hands has been addressed for several years at the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory (ARTS) Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. The concept of the first cybernetic hand system was conceived in the framework of the Cyberhand project ( funded by the Ftuture Emerging Technology Programme of the UE, IST-FET-2001-35094 ). The Cyberhand project represents the first integrated attempt to simultaneously address four main objectives:

• to obtain a cosmetic and dexterous artificial hand;
• to develop a bio-inspired artificial sensory system to provide the patient with active perception;
• to implement a neurocontroller for the prosthesis by extracting motor commands from the peripheral nervous system (efferent system);
• to delivery sensory feedback (on touch, proprioception) to the subject by stimulation of the sensory nerve fibres (afferent system).

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Tesi Disponibili (Italian)

Realizzazione di display vibro-tattile per sostituzione sensoriale (Ing. BM INF)

Realizzazione di mano protesica compliante (Ing. BM IND)

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Dedicated Website

CyberHand.org
It is possible to navigate in this web site to find recent information and all papers on the follow-up activities of the CyberHand project. Several new projects are ongoing and they are carried out by students, engineers and researchers at ARTS Lab in the framework of several national and international research projects.

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Projects

OpenHand

from "2010" to "2012"

budget="45000" Euro

CyberHand

from "2002" to "2005"

budget="343500" Euro

SmartHand

from "2006" to "2009"

budget="281000" Euro

SafeHand

from "2006" to "2007"

budget="40000" Euro

RPP Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program

from "2006" to "2008"

budget="150000" Euro

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