Title
On-line Synergy Identification for Personalized Active Arm Prosthesis: a Feasibility Study
Abstract
The number of degrees of freedom in prosthetic devices today is greater than the number of available electromyographic signals from the residual limb. This potentially causes complex and unintuitive interfaces, which in turn have been cited as a leading cause of prosthetic device abandonment. Synergistic arm prosthesis control allows for an intuitive way to provide additional information to command the motion of the prosthesis by coordinating the motion relationship between the prosthesis and the residual limb. There is a challenge in identifying effective synergies, especially as the motion of an amputee generally differs from the synergy of the typical ablebodied subjects, from person to person, and along the time of prosthesis usage. In this paper, a framework for on-line data driven optimization is proposed to identify the optimal synergy setting for an individual performing a specific task, formulated as an optimization problem based on human motor control. This is done through the characterization of the task by a cost function and the parametrization of the synergy. The proposed framework is able to characterize and identify the synergy of the task of reaching for a given location, with a healthy subject in the loop. The framework is used to drive the motion of an elbow prosthesis using its synergy with the residual shoulder movement of the human subject as input. A simple parametrization for the synergy is used in this paper to demonstrate the idea of the proposed framework. Human-in-the-loop simulation results are presented, showing the feasibility of data driven optimization for on-line synergy identification in the context of an arm prosthesis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/ACC.2018.8431310
2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
prosthetic devices,electromyographic signals,human-in-the-loop simulation,elbow prosthesis,human motor control,optimization problem,synergistic arm prosthesis control,residual limb,personalized active arm prosthesis,on-line synergy identification,residual shoulder movement
Residual,Kinematics,Data-driven,Task analysis,Arm prosthesis,Computer science,Motor control,Control engineering,Shoulder movement,Optimization problem
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-1619
978-1-5386-5429-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo Garcia-Rosas112.07
Ying Tan2128695.40
Denny Oetomo310031.30
Chris Manzie431846.66