This concept was developed from a semester-long school project in the Design and Ergonomics of the Medical Products course. But I plan to continue with the project, so it's a work in progress.
As part of this project, I also wrote a simple plugin for Fusion360 that reads the data stored by the OpenCV hand tracking script in real-time. For now, I'm uploading the initial version but FusionApi should be able to integrate third-party content into the built-in window so later I'll upload an improved version where both scripts will be fused.
The plugin was mainly used to quickly demonstrate the hand movement and for a wow effect. I was too lazy to read the whole FusionApi documentation.
As a hobbyist continuation of this project, I would like to get to design optimization and then begin 3D prototyping and printing the finger, along with the construction of a functional dual-twist mode actuation mechanism (more in report.pdf).
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- [3] Y. Cho, Y. Lee, P. Kim, S. Jeong and K. -S. Kim, "The MSC Prosthetic Hand: Rapid, Powerful, and Intuitive," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3170-3177, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3140444.
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