%0 Journal Article
%T Development of finger-motion capturing device based on optical linear encoder
%A Kang Li
%A MEng
%A I-Ming Chen
%A PhD
%A Song Huat Yeo
%A PhD
%A Chee Kian Lim
%A PhD
%J Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
%D 2011
%I Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs
%X This article presents the design and validation of a wearable glove-based multifinger-motion capture device (SmartGlove), specifically focusing on the development of a new optical linear encoder (OLE). The OLE specially designed for this project is compact and lightweight and has low-power consumption. The characterization tests showed that the OLE's digital output has good linearity and is accurate. The first prototype of SmartGlove, which uses 10 OLEs to capture the flexion/extension motion of the 14 finger joints, was constructed based on the multipoint-sensing method. A user study evaluated the SmartGlove using a standard protocol and found high repeatability and reliability in both the gripped and flat-hand positions compared with four other evaluated data gloves using the same protocol.
%K biomedical
%K calibration
%K design
%K hand-motion capture
%K multifinger sensing
%K novel sensing
%K optical linear encoder
%K rehabilitation
%K SmartGlove
%K validation
%U http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/11/481/pdf/doaj/li.pdf