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Virtual reality training and EMG control of the MANUS hand prosthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2005

J. L. Pons
Affiliation:
Instituto de Automática Industrial, IAI, CSIC Ctra. Campo Real, km. 0,200 28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid (Spain).
R. Ceres
Affiliation:
Instituto de Automática Industrial, IAI, CSIC Ctra. Campo Real, km. 0,200 28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid (Spain).
E. Rocon
Affiliation:
Instituto de Automática Industrial, IAI, CSIC Ctra. Campo Real, km. 0,200 28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid (Spain).
S. Levin
Affiliation:
Alorman Advanced Medical Technologies Ltd. (Israel).
I. Markovitz
Affiliation:
Alorman Advanced Medical Technologies Ltd. (Israel).
B. Saro
Affiliation:
Centro de Recuperación de Minusválidos Físicos, CRMF, IMSERSO (Spain).
D. Reynaerts
Affiliation:
PMA, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, K. U. Leuven (Belgium).
W. Van Moorleghem
Affiliation:
Advanced Material Technologies N.V. (Belgium).
L. Bueno
Affiliation:
Instituto de Automática Industrial, IAI, CSIC Ctra. Campo Real, km. 0,200 28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid (Spain).

Abstract

The design of multifunctional upper limb prosthetics has been investigated in recent years. Several areas or research need to be developed for successful implementation of dextrous upper limb prosthesis, in particular better EMG interfaces for implementing command languages.

This article introduces a novel three-bit EMG command language concept as a user interface for the multifunctional MANUS prosthesis prototype. Following the global approach proposed by MANUS, a training process and the supporting Virtual Reality training software are also presented. The last section describes the evaluation process and the results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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