After Undip succeeded in developing a bionic hand that serves to replace a lost hand due to an accident. Now, Muhammad Mutoha and Zainal Arifin under the direction of a Department of Mechanical Engineering Lecturer Mochammad Ariyanto, ST, MT develop wearable supernumerary robotic fingers (WSRF). This WSRF adds two robotic fingers that are used to assist the activities of patients with hemiplegia or hemiparesis in grasping and manipulating objects.
Hemiplegia is when one hand becomes paralyzed and unable to move. While Hemiparesis is when one hand becomes weak, but not completely paralyzed. For people with hemiplegia or hemiparesis, when doing some activities that require both hands, for example lifting large objects, opening bottle caps, opening jar lids, tightening bolts on electronic components and so on, it will be difficult to do.
“With the WSRF, patients can perform activities that require two hands and can be done with only one hand. This device uses a smart Neural Network system that is embedded into the microcontroller to control the posture of the additional robotic fingers so that they can synergize with the user’s fingers, “explained Mochamad Ariyanto in a written statement. He explained, this tool is also equipped with force sensing to determine the force that has been given when holding objects.
The development of WSRF is supported and assisted by the Chairperson of the Undip Robotic Development Center (URDC) Dr. eng. Munadi, ST, MT and Chair of the Center for Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Biomechatronics, and Biosignal Processing (CBIOM3S) Dr. Rifky Ismail, ST, MT.
This article has been published on Tribunjateng.com with the title ADVANCED VIDEO, This Undip Finding Tool Makes One Hand Function Like Two Hands, http://jateng.tribunnews.com/2016/10/20/video-canggih-alat-temuan-undip-ini-membuat-fungsi-satu-tangan-seperti-dua-tangan.