The journey of a prosthetic user is characterized by the opportunities and the limitations of a
device that should enable activities of daily living (ADL). In particular, experiencing a bionic …

Technological advances in manufacturing smart high-performances electronic devices,
increasingly available at lower costs, nowadays allow one to improve users' quality of life in …

Skin-interfaced medical devices are critically important for diagnosing disease, monitoring
physiological health and establishing control interfaces with prosthetics, computer systems …

In this paper the use of a commercial EMG armband for the motion control of a prototype
hand prosthesis is proposed. The mechanical design is based on an open source six …

This research presents work on control of a prosthetic arm using surface electromyography
(sEMG) signals acquired from triceps and biceps of fifteen healthy and four amputated …

Background Active upper-limb prostheses are used to restore important hand functionalities,
such as gras**. In conventional approaches, a pattern recognition system is trained over a …

Robotic ankle prostheses can imitate the biomechanical function of intact legs at the cost of
a larger weight and size compared to conventional passive prostheses. Unfortunately …

The evolution of technological and surgical techniques has made it possible to obtain an
even more intuitive control of multiple joints using advanced prosthetic systems. Targeted …

High accuracy and a real-time system are priorities in the development of a prosthetic hand.
This study aimed to develop and evaluate a real-time embedded time-domain feature …

Current control of prosthetic hands is ineffective when gras** deformable, irregular, or
heavy objects. In humans, gras** is achieved under spinal reflexive control of the …