Viscous damping of tremor using a wearable robot with an optimized mechanical metamaterial

• Main Authors: Raghavendra Kulkarni, Suhas, Accoto, Dino, Campolo, Domenico
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Metamaterial; Tremor suppression; Wearable robot; Optimization; Cable-based actuation; Viscous damping
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181661
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Pathological tremors can often be debilitating to activities of daily living and significantly affect the quality of life. Such tremulous movements are commonly observed in wrist flexion-extension (FE). To suppress this tremor we present a wearable robot (WR) with a customized mechanical metamateria...