Design, fabrication and analysis of tremor test rig to emulate human hand tremor

Parkinson’s disease has no cure and the only treatment can be done is to relieve the symptoms. An anti-tremor device, which is a biomechanics approach, can be used to reduce hand tremor. Therefore, any device development should go through lab testing process before applying them on a human being. Here is where the test rig comes into picture as a device that can vibrate along the arm model, which is very similar to the human postural tremor behaviour. In this experimental work, a comparison between axial and rotational test rig where their frequencies are used for this analysis. Acceleration and angular velocity of a selected point on the hand model are captured and recorded. The input data for Parkinson’s patients are used to vibrate the hand model. The output test rig data accuracy is verified by comparing with the frequency of the patients’ hand tremors. From the result, the frequency of test rig and patients’s hand tremors occurred at similar frequency of 4.813 Hz within their frequency range. This finding can assist future researchers in designing and fabricating a test rig or any device to suppress Parkinson’s patient's postural tremor.

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  2022

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  Proceeding of 2nd International Colloquium on Computational & Experimental Mechanics (ICCEM 2021)

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  DOI 10.1063/5.0105602
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