Title
Prostheses control with combined near-infrared and myoelectric signals
Abstract
Over the last decade, technical innovations have resulted in major achievements in the field of upper limb prostheses. However, the limitation of such devices is not the electro-mechanical realization, but rather the lack of astute cutaneous control-sources. This contribution demonstrates real-time detection of muscle exertions by combining myoelectric and near-infrared signals. The presented sensor technology and classification scheme have been developed for five-finger hand prostheses but can be employed to control a variety of prosthetic devices. This control mechanism only requires a patient to individually contract extant muscles, for which a minimal-threshold myoelectric or reflected near-infrared signal can be measured on the surface of the skin. Our experimental data show that the combination of both sensor types provides better classification results and surpasses the spatial resolution of a single pickup device. Features extracted from these signals can be used as input data for our existing classifier and allow compensation of muscle fatigue effects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-27579-1_77
EUROCAST (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
muscle exertion,input data,myoelectric signal,minimal-threshold myoelectric,control mechanism,near-infrared signal,muscle fatigue effect,classification scheme,prostheses control,experimental data,contract extant muscle,better classification result
Computer vision,Experimental data,Computer science,Classification scheme,Near-infrared spectroscopy,Sensor fusion,Artificial intelligence,Extant taxon,Classifier (linguistics),Pickup,Image resolution,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6928
0302-9743
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Herrmann160.75
Andreas Attenberger2122.44
Klaus Buchenrieder312518.89