Prototyping of Remote-Controlled Robotic Hand Based on Flex Sensor, A Preliminary Research for The Development of Post-Stroke Therapy Assistive Device Gilar Pandu Annanto, Imam Syafaat, Fandy Indra Pratama, Hendrawan Ariefudin, and Sholeh Budi Utomo
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Wahid Hasyim University, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.
Abstract
Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019, at a global level, stroke was placed as the 2nd in disease that caused death and ranked 3rd in disease that caused disability. In Indonesia, there were 2.565.601 stroke patients recorded in 2018. The main purpose of the current research was to develop a post-stroke therapy assistive device that can be controlled remotely by the therapist. In order to achieve the final objective, several research had to be done step by step. The current paper aims to identify and built a system which able to provide a swift wireless data transmission, thus a prototype of a robotic hand was built and remotely controlled by a control glove equipped with a flex sensor. The transmission data of the robotic hand and control glove was done wirelessly using the HC-05 Bluetooth module and coded based on the EasyTransfer library. Based on the result, the prototype was able to work as expected and the data transfer between microcontrollers was done swiftly, thus it can be concluded that the current system was able to be implemented in further research
