Article

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 out put 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.

Langue : ANGLAIS