Quantifying the human finger reachable space Pham, Hai Trieu and Pathirana, Pubudu 2016, Quantifying the human finger reachable space, in EMBC 2016 : Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference, IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 4589-4592, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591749. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Quantifying the human finger reachable space Author(s) Pham, Hai Trieu Pathirana, Pubudu orcid.org/0000-0001-8014-7798 Conference name IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference (38th : 2016 : Orlando, Florida) Conference location Orlando, Florida Conference dates 16-20 Aug. 2016 Title of proceedings EMBC 2016 : Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference Publication date 2016 Conference series IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference Start page 4589 End page 4592 Total pages 4 Publisher IEEE Place of publication Piscataway, N.J. Summary Describing the flexibility of the hand using the reachable space concept has drawn the attention of many researchers in recent years. Existing approaches involving numerical techniques to obtain the reachable space are generally computationally expensive. In this study, we propose a resource-friendly approach to determine and quantify the bidimensional reachable space of the finger. The fundamental idea of the approach connects to a set of arc formulae for the boundary of the reachable space. These formulae of the boundary result a unique description to calculate the area of the reachable space using Green's theorem. Adopting this novel approach, reachable spaces can be visualised and quantified to effectively evaluate the functionality of different subjects and their therapeutic conditions. We evaluated the performance of the proposed approach against the popular kinematic feedforward approach and Monte Carlo simulation separately. The exclusive description of the reachable space boundary resulted in significant improvement to the execution time while delivering more accurate quantification values. ISBN 9781457702204 ISSN 1557-170X Language eng DOI 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591749 Field of Research 090305 Rehabilitation Engineering Socio Economic Objective 0 Not Applicable HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed ERA Research output type E Conference publication Copyright notice ©2016, IEEE Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30093549 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Engineering Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 06 Apr 2017, 12:00:29 EST Fri, 07 Apr 2017, 05:04:20 EST Thu, 13 Apr 2017, 12:15:15 EST Thu, 13 Apr 2017, 12:15:52 EST Fri, 14 Apr 2017, 06:08:24 EST Fri, 09 Jun 2017, 09:58:46 EST Fri, 09 Jun 2017, 10:05:47 EST Sat, 17 Jun 2017, 02:31:52 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 94 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 13 Apr 2017, 12:15:52 EST

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