Force your hand—PAM enabled wrist support

Abstract

Assisted motions in human body reduce muscular activation and eventually, fatigue. This paper proposes an assistive model for the wrist of a human body enabled with a set of pneumatic actuators that act like artificial muscles for supporting various motions of the user. These motions include flexion, extension, and pronation of the wrist. A series of experiments were carried out in order to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the glove design by measuring EMG (Electromyography) signals of the concerned muscles, and positive results were obtained.