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05-17-2016, 12:59 AM
New Control Tech**logy to Improve Prosthetic Arm Movement
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At Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada researchers are working on improving the movement of an already highly advanced robotic prosthetic arm. The bebionic arm (http://www.medgadget.com/2012/05/rslsteepers-preview-of-bebionic3-artificial-hand.html)*from*RSLSteeper, a UK firm, has five independent fingers, but the interface and how its controlled is what the researchers are trying to improve so that movement is more natural, responsive, and feels a bit more like a real arm.
The M.A.S.S. Impact (Muscle Activity Sensor Strip) team at SFU has developed a stick-on electrode device that measures the electrical activity within the remaining muscles around the stump. These are recorded by the electrode array and converted by **vel software developed at the SFU lab, which uses techniques that improve its performance as the arm is used more and more.
The tech**logy originally came from attempts to rehabilitate stroke patients, but found use in prosthetic research.
The team will be participating in the*Cybathlon (http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/)this coming October*where athletes using advanced prostheses will compete in a variety of tasks.
Here’s an SFU report about the new upper prosthetic control tech**logy:
Via:*SFU… (https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/sfu-researchers-build-a-better-bionic-hand-danny-letain.html)
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At Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada researchers are working on improving the movement of an already highly advanced robotic prosthetic arm. The bebionic arm (http://www.medgadget.com/2012/05/rslsteepers-preview-of-bebionic3-artificial-hand.html)*from*RSLSteeper, a UK firm, has five independent fingers, but the interface and how its controlled is what the researchers are trying to improve so that movement is more natural, responsive, and feels a bit more like a real arm.
The M.A.S.S. Impact (Muscle Activity Sensor Strip) team at SFU has developed a stick-on electrode device that measures the electrical activity within the remaining muscles around the stump. These are recorded by the electrode array and converted by **vel software developed at the SFU lab, which uses techniques that improve its performance as the arm is used more and more.
The tech**logy originally came from attempts to rehabilitate stroke patients, but found use in prosthetic research.
The team will be participating in the*Cybathlon (http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/)this coming October*where athletes using advanced prostheses will compete in a variety of tasks.
Here’s an SFU report about the new upper prosthetic control tech**logy:
Via:*SFU… (https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/sfu-researchers-build-a-better-bionic-hand-danny-letain.html)
The post New Control Tech**logy to Improve Prosthetic Arm Movement (http://www.medgadget.com/2016/05/new-control-tech**logy-to-improve-prosthetic-arm-movement.html) appeared first on Medgadget (http://www.medgadget.com).
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