Version 1
: Received: 17 February 2023 / Approved: 21 February 2023 / Online: 21 February 2023 (11:00:31 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 24 February 2023 / Approved: 27 February 2023 / Online: 27 February 2023 (10:40:17 CET)
David, J.P.; Helbig, T.; Witte, H. SenGlove—A Modular Wearable Device to Measure Kinematic Parameters of The Human Hand. Bioengineering2023, 10, 324.
David, J.P.; Helbig, T.; Witte, H. SenGlove—A Modular Wearable Device to Measure Kinematic Parameters of The Human Hand. Bioengineering 2023, 10, 324.
David, J.P.; Helbig, T.; Witte, H. SenGlove—A Modular Wearable Device to Measure Kinematic Parameters of The Human Hand. Bioengineering2023, 10, 324.
David, J.P.; Helbig, T.; Witte, H. SenGlove—A Modular Wearable Device to Measure Kinematic Parameters of The Human Hand. Bioengineering 2023, 10, 324.
Abstract
For technical or medical applications, the knowledge of the exact kinematics of the human hand is key to utilizing its capability to handle and manipulate objects and to communicate with other humans or machines. The optimal relationship between the number of measurement parameters, measurement accuracy as well as complexity, usability and cost of the measuring systems is hard to find. Biomechanic assumptions, the concepts of a biomechatronic system and the mechatronic design process as well as commercially available components are used to develop a sensorized glove. The proposed wearable can measure 14 of 15 angular values of a simplified hand model introduced in this paper. Additionally, five contact pressure values at the fingertips and inertial data of the whole hand with a degree of freedom of six are gathered. Due to the modular design and a hand size examination based on anthropometric parameters, the concept of the wearable is applicable for a large variety of hand sizes and adaptable to different use cases. Validations show a combined root-mean-square error of 0.99° to 2.38° for the measurement of all joint angles at one finger, surpassing the human perception threshold and the current state of the art in science and technology for comparable systems.
Keywords
Wearable devices; Wearable sensors; Data glove; Biomechatronic design; Hand kinematics; Joint measurement; Flex sensors; Biomedical engineering
Subject
Engineering, Bioengineering
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
27 February 2023
Commenter:
Thomas Helbig
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
Dear Editors,we revised the original draft of our manuscript based on the reviewers' comments and suggestions. In addition, the manuscript underwent a linguistic revision by a native speaker. This is the revised and newly submitted version.the authors
Commenter: Thomas Helbig
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author