Development of hand-arm model rig for tremor excitation

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a hand-arm model rig to simulate human tremor behaviour. The experimental rig is designed as an apparatus to induce vibration along a hand-arm model. An Intra Vernacular (IV) Training arm is used as the hand-arm model. Displacement and acceleration behaviour at three selected points along the hand-arm model were recorded by mean of piezoelectric accelerometer. The data from the experiment can be used for further analysis of the human hand-arm . ??? tremor especially for Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Results from the experiments are raw data which can Iater be used in designing an appropriate instrument that can suppress the hand tremor.