DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A

FUNCTIONAL ROBOTIC HAND

PROSTHESIS

FINAL WORK OF ROBOTICS AND BIONICS

Group 7
Marlene Puchaicela
Ana Andrade
Dayanna Baque
Sofia Tripul
Mateo Quizhpe
Introduction

Objectives

Materials and methods

Introduction
The number of disabled people in Ecuador due to the partial or total loss of their limbs is considerable

Due to the lack of economic and technical / professional resources within the area of ​development and construction of
prostheses in the country, there are no specialized centers that design and manufacture prostheses that allow reaching
low-income people in remote areas of large cities.
This project aims to make a prosthesis tailored to the patient taking into account the morphometric
measurements of Ecuadorian people, due to the anatomical and functional complexity that the prosthetic device
has to replace.
Objectives

 General objective

 Develop, design and build a prototype robotic hand prosthesis that can perform prehensile grips when it
receives an order from a command system.
• Specific objectives

 Investigate different types of materials (chitosan), actuators, transmission mechanisms and sensors for the
development of the prosthesis.

 Carry out the mechanical design of the robotic prosthesis in a CAD computer-aided design software (Solid Edge or
SolidWorks), taking into account the average anthropometric measurements of a human hand of Ecuadorian
people, functionality, costs, maintenance, modularity, resistance, flexibility.

 Carry out tests through a pilot study to validate the mechanics, software and hardware of the prototype design.

 Mechanically construct a first prototype of a hand prosthesis.

Method

Hand design

Finger design using Solid Edge® or SolidWorks computer-aided

design software

Development of a prototype of the robotic hand.

Robotic Hand Hardware / Software Interface

Hand test or pilot study.

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funcional adaptada a varios agarres. Popayán, enero del, 2010.

 ANDRADE ZEAS, Diego Miguel; ZÚÑIGA TENESACA, Daniel Alejandro. Diseño y construcción de una mano
robótica para la enseñanza del alfabeto dactilológico universal para personas sordomudas. 2011. Tesis de
Licenciatura.