The Synergistic Hand-Wrist Rehabilitation Platform designs and develops an integrated rehabilitation system for patients with hand spasticity and impaired hand-wrist function.
The platform employs soft robotic actuation and control technologies to provide controlled, adaptive and safe assistance for finger and wrist rehabilitation. By enabling coordinated hand-wrist movement and patient-specific therapeutic assistance, SHARP aims to support functional recovery and improve the effectiveness of rehabilitation for people affected by neurological motor impairments.
It combines progressive rehabilitation modes with assessment of motion, force and muscle activity, and adapts the robotic assistance to what the assessment finds.
Funding
TÜSEB B-Group R&D Project, 2026–2028. Principal Investigator: Prof. Elif Hocaoğlu.
Project team
Tanin Boka
Doctoral Researcher
Soft robotics, assistive gloves and biomechanics for upper-limb rehabilitation.
Hiba Latifee
Doctoral Researcher
Human–robot shared and supervisory teleoperation, learning from demonstration, imitation learning.
Abdulrazaq Sulaiman Usman
Graduate Researcher
Soft robotic actuation for hand and wrist rehabilitation, and sEMG-guided thermal therapy.
Ibad UrRehman Jeelani
Graduate Researcher
Real-time systems and human–robot interaction for rehabilitation.