Exoskeleton device for directly measuring fingertip position and

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1997-10-24

2000-08-29

O'Connor, Cary

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Measuring anatomical characteristic or force applied to or...

600587, A61B 5103

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061101303

ABSTRACT:
An exoskeleton device is provided for measuring positions of links and angles of joints of an animate body, where the body comprises a plurality of links joined by intervening joints. The device is affixed at a first mobile terminus of said animate body and a second fixed terminus, having device links displaced from animate links, where the device links are connected by device joints and having sensor means for measuring the angle of the device joints. Using the signals from the sensor means, one can determine the position of the terminal device link and based on knowledge of the animate body structure, calculate the animate angle joints.

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