Design of finger exoskeleton rehabilitation robot using the flexible joint and the MYO armband

Abstract

High-risk diseases such as stroke can do great harm to human hands. Hand rehabilitation for stroke patients is a complex and necessary task. To achieve this goal, this paper introduces a hand exoskeleton equipment with flexible joints and EMG-base motion prediction. Experiment of the equipment includes kinematics analysis, EMG signal detection by MYO armband and motion prediction base on BP neural network. The result shows that the device can not only assists patient bending or extending fingers, but also perform six kinds of rehabilitation exercises with 92% accuracy for target motion recognition.