Design and optimization of soft finger actuators for rehabilitation applications: A combined finite element and neural network approach

• Mahmoud Elsamanty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mahmoud.alsamanty@feng.bu.edu.eg (ME); guok@sibet.ac.cn (KG)

  Affiliation Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6433-1384

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• Karim Badr,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt, Mechatronics Engineering Department at Modern University for Technology and Information-MTI, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0122-6072

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• Basem Akl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5629-525X

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• Abdelkader Ibrahim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Hongbo Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China

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• Kai Guo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mahmoud.alsamanty@feng.bu.edu.eg (ME); guok@sibet.ac.cn (KG)

  Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China

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• Mostafa Orban

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt, School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8414-1171

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