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Development of a Voice-Controlled Tendon-Driven Bionic Hand

Urja Kohli·Shagata Chanda·Kritika Gandhi·Charu Nigam·Aditi Surya Kamal·Pooja Bhati
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The impairment of the hands can seriously affect the abilities of every individual to perform the every-day activity, so the design of stable and controllable support devices is a significant field of study. This paper is about the design and implementation of an automated bionic hand which is dedicated to the coordinated finger movement through the simplified and efficient actuation mechanism. The method that the proposed system was designed on is the tendon-based method whereby the servo motors generate the movement of the fingers, with assistance of the angular control which is calibrated. An actuation is controlled by a microcontroller that will be programmed by use of an Arduino-based microcontroller to carry out programmed gestures that include open hand, fist, pinch and half flexion. It has an interface that is voice command enabled to make it easy to interact with a Bluetooth based sender receiver architecture which offers an option of executing trained commands which are immediately converted to finger actions. To explore the motions behavior, finger coordination and control response to the input, the behavior of the experiment system is tested. The actuation of the fingers was found to take a total of about 7-8 seconds to achieve full flexion of all fingers in a sequence. The system showed repetitive and constant motion throughout several actuation cycles without loss of any apparent tension or precision of control. There was a stable grasp of objects of different shapes and sizes, which implied consistent coordination between the fingers. These findings indicate that the proposed system offers predictable and steady control behavior and has a simple and efficient mechanical and control architecture.

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Urja Kohli, Shagata Chanda, Kritika Gandhi, Charu Nigam, Aditi Surya Kamal, Pooja Bhati. 2026-08-25. Development of a Voice-Controlled Tendon-Driven Bionic Hand. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25222

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