Abstract: Portable hand exoskeletons are reaching homes, providing daily assistance to people with hand impairments and enhancing their quality of life. Their design, however, is rarely based on the biomimetics of human finger ...

Abstract: Existing prosthetic/orthotic designs are rarely based on kinetostatics of a biological finger, especially its tendon–pulley system (TPS). Whether a biological TPS is optimal for use as a reference, say for design purposes, ...