Title
Development of an upper-limb neuroprosthesis to voluntarily control elbow and hand.
Abstract
This work reports on the research and development of a lightweight neuroprosthesis that can control impaired motion using voluntary biological signals. The total weight of the developed neuroprosthesis is 900g, which is the weight of 40% of the defective limb. Further, it is lighter than commercially available models. For a transhumeral amputee who had targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) surgery, we attempted pattern classification using an artificial neural network (ANN) of a surface electromyogram (s-EMG) extracted from an innervated muscle. The result shows that classification of only five motions was possible using an s-EMG extracted from four dry electrodes. However, seven motion classifications were possible using eight wet-gel electrodes. The transhumeral amputee who had TMR surgery could thus successfully perform pick-and-place tasks using the neuroprosthesis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/01691864.2018.1507836
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electromyography,above-elbow prosthesis,targeted muscle reinnervation,pattern recognition
Neuroprosthetics,Upper limb,Elbow,Electromyography,Control engineering,Engineering,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Artificial neural network,Reinnervation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32.0
16
0169-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yosuke Ogiri101.01
Yusuke Yamanoi212.10
Wataru Nishino300.68
Ryu Kato47818.23
Takehiko Takagi511.72
Hiroshi Yokoi638392.58