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    Area of Science:

    • Robotics
    • Biomechanical Engineering
    • Soft Robotics

    Background:

    • Developing prosthetic hands with naturalistic grasping capabilities remains a challenge.
    • Achieving complex finger synergies often requires multiple actuators, increasing complexity and weight.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To design and analyze a single-actuator soft robotic prosthetic hand.
    • To enable control of finger postural synergies through joint stiffness modulation.
    • To provide a lightweight and mechanically simple prosthetic hand solution.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized soft flexure joints and a whiffletree mechanism for coordinated finger movement.
    • Developed a forward quasistatic model to predict joint angles based on tendon displacement.
    • Introduced an inverse model to determine required joint stiffness for desired synergies.
    • Validated the design through simulations and experiments on a 3D-printed hand.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated successful encoding of postural synergies via joint stiffness modulation.
    • Achieved both pinch and power grasp types with the single-actuator design.
    • Validated the predictive accuracy of the developed quasistatic and inverse models.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed soft robotic hand offers a lightweight, mechanically simple solution for prosthetic applications.
    • Single-actuator control with stiffness modulation effectively achieves desired finger synergies.
    • The design enhances functionality and adaptability for various grasping tasks in prosthetic hands.