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论文标题    Optoelectronic-based pose sensing for a hand rehabilitation exoskeleton continuous structure
作者    Bo He, Min Li, Renghao Liang, Ziting Liang, Wei Yao, Sina Sareh, Jun Xie, Guanghua Xu, and Yohan Noh
发表/完成日期    2022-01-20
期刊名称    IEEE Sensors Journal
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论文简介    Hand exoskeleton pose monitoring is of great importance in the rehabilitation training of stroke patients to ensure precise robotic trajectory control and provide a patient recovery assessment mechanism. In this paper, a low-cost pose sensor unit based on the principle of photoelectric reflection is proposed to measure the pose of a multi-segment continuous structure in a hand rehabilitation exoskeleton. The sensor unit consists of five photosensitive elements that measure the rotation angle of an arrangement of adjacent segments, each integrated with a sensing element, to estimate the actuator’s motion. An accurate device with a user-friendly interface is then designed for calibration of the sensing elements. The experimental results indicate that the sensitivity exceeds 0.047 V/° for the sensing elements, and hysteresis and repeatability errors are less than 1.1% and 1.8%, respectively. A comparison between the proposed sensor output and the results benchmarked by a VICON motion capture system demonstrates that the sensor can measure the bending angle of the multi-segment structure with a mean error of 3.42 degrees.