Design Case study
Redesign of the ALIMCO Hand
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Design process that was followed in this project:
• Introduction
• Road map of the project
• Understanding the user
- Bhagvaan Mahavir Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS)
• Primary interviews
- Dr. Ashok Mahnot (Centre Head)
- Dr. P.K. Jain (Chief Surgeon)
- Mr. Prashant Gade (founder of Inali foundation)
- New Alimco hand users
- Sumit (IITB student)
- Observations
• Problems to address when developing artificial arm
- Attachment of the artificial arm to the body
- Design of the stomp
• Understanding the product and its manufacturing
- Site visit to Alimco, Kanpur
- The above elbow kit by Alimco
- The hand unit: disassembled
• Analysis of the Alimco Hand
• Man Machine Environment (MME) Model
• Design Brief
• Scope of the project
• Upper Limb prosthetics
- Functional Restoration of a prosthetic hand
- Below elbow prosthetics available in India
• Design Objective
• Gesture exploration
- Shapes and sizes of objects
- Picking cylindrical objects:
- Picking round objects:
- Picking thin objects:
- The ring and pinky fi nger:
- Opposing function:
- Consolidated Gestures:
• Concepts
- Concept 1- Forced open (Passive hand)
- Concept 2- Lever based Forced open (Passive hand)
- Concept 3- Electric hand
• Concept evaluation
• Final Concept
- Model
- Dimensions of the Prosthetic arm
- Salient features of the Final concept
• Learnings
• Future scope
• References
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