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The abilities of the currently existing hand prostheses are typically limited to opening or closing the hand. This limits the usefulness of the prosthesis considerably compared to the many degrees of freedom in an intact hand. In order to develop more advanced hand prostheses two main problems have to be solved. The first is to develop more advanced mechanical solutions that allows for more degrees of freedom. The second, that we address below, is to devise a way of controlling the additional dexterity of such a prosthesis. Before the second problem is solved, the development of more advanced prostheses will be severely hindered.
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Eriksson, L., Sebelius, F., Balkenius, C. (1998). Neural Control of a Virtual Prosthesis. In: Niklasson, L., Bodén, M., Ziemke, T. (eds) ICANN 98. ICANN 1998. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1599-1_141
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