Smart Glove Design and Implementation Using Smart Materials

Project Goal

In this project, we designed a Smart Glove using Nylon Fishing Line as actuators and Velostat as sensors to help people who are unable to hold or grab things to move their fingers. Our work included literature review of Dielectric Elastomers, sensor design using Velostat, real time data processing using Arduino and Processing 3, noise cancellation, and artificial muscle fabrication using Nylon Fishing Line.

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Prototype design
sensor
Sensor design
sensor_test
Sensor test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8a8sX-tYvg

Noise cancellation using Kalman filter

fishingline
Artificial muscle using Nylon Fishing Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pfp9_SN5L0

Artificial muscle – Nylon Fishing Line coiling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBSeQ2ONPnc

Artificial muscle – Nylon Fishing Line annealing

actuation
Actuation board