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Table 3 Specific power, specific force/torque and the efficiency of rotary motors, linear motors and pneumatic piston-coil systems used by the orthoses of this review. Human muscle performance given as reference. Asterisk-tagged values are from external literature, since these data were not provided in the retrieved literature

From: Need for mechanically and ergonomically enhanced tremor-suppression orthoses for the upper limb: a systematic review

 

Rotary motor with transmission (#1, #4) [38,39,40,39,, 47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56]

Linear motor (#7) [59]

Pneumatic piston-coil (#8) [60,61,62,63,64]

Human muscle * [83, 84]

Specific power [W/kg]

117.5 (±3.7)

387.30

76.3

50

Specific force/torque

16.7 (±13.8) Nm/kg

212.7 N/kg

243.5 N/kg

20 Nm/kg

Energy efficiency [%]

55.8 (±4.2)

85 * [85]

20 * [86]

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