when arthrodesis of a joint improves hand function through transforming a painful unstable joint into a pain-free and stable fusion. The loss of joint motion after such a procedure is for certain joints, i.e. the metacarpo-phalangeal joint of the thumb, of minor importance compared to the ...
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrically fused joint preventing falling off of a bar code label display part from a joint body even in electrically fused joints of various different shapes. ;SOLUTION: The electrically fused joint provided with a bar code label recording fusion information...
Finally, numerical simulations with a two-link thumb, and three-link fingers using fusion of PD controller and PSO, PID controller and GA, and optimal and ANFIS and GA, clearly demonstrate that the integration of SC and HC methodologies is superior to using either HC or SC technique alone....