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Table 7 Overview of the spring-blades and hybrid devices.

From: Upper limb soft robotic wearable devices: a systematic review

Scenario

DOF

Low-level Control

High-level Control

TRL

Year and Related works

R

2, W: flex/ext, ulnar/radial dev

Motion

Buttons-triggered

4

2018 [42]

R

2, W: flex/ext, radial/ulnar dev

Position

EEG-based attention trigger

5

2019 [72]

A

2, S: flex/ext, E: flex/ext

Position

Reed switches trigger forward and backward driving

5

2015 [46, 47]

I

1, S: elev

Pressure

–

4

2019 [44]

R

2, E: flex/ext, W: flex/ext

Pulse-width (NMES), pressure

EMG trigger

5/6

2020 [45]

  1. S = shoulder, E = elbow, W = wrist, flex = flexion, ext = extension, dev = deviation, elev = elevation, R = rehabilitation, A= assistance, I = industrial