Development of a mechanical setup for assessing stiffness of the wrist joints from torque and kinematic measurements

• Main Author: Chan, Wai Keat.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Bio-mechatronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44953
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The objective of this project is to design and to develop a passive mechanical setup for assessing stiffness of the wrist joints. As previous studies have performed the measurement by depending on the torque motor, the primary aim of the project is to design the passive structure with manual stretch...