%0 Book Section %B Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II %D 2016 %T The SoftHand Pro: Translation from Robotic Hand to Prosthetic Prototype %A S. B. Godfrey %A M. Bianchi %A K. Zhao %A M. G. Catalano %A R. Breighner %A A. Theuer %A K. Andrews %A G. Grioli %A M. Santello %A A. Bicchi %K Haptics %K Robotics %X

This work presents the translation from a humanoid robotic hand to a prosthetic prototype and its first evaluation in a set of 9 persons with amputation. The Pisa/IIT SoftHand is an underactuated hand built on the neuroscientific principle of motor synergies enabling it to perform natural, human-like movements and mold around grasped objects with minimal control input. These features motivated the development of the SoftHand Pro, a prosthetic version of the SoftHand built to interface with a prosthetic socket. The results of the preliminary testing of the SoftHand Pro showed it to be a highly functional design with an intuitive control system. Present results warrant further testing to develop the SoftHand Pro.

%B Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II %I Springer International Publishing %V 15 %P 469-473 %G eng %U http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_78 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_78