A Study on Our New Prosthetic Hand Control Method Using a Low-Cost sEMG Device

Abstract. This study introduces a new control method for electromyography (EMG) in a prosthetic hand application with a practical design of the whole system. The hand is controlled by a motor (which regulates a significant part of the hand movement) and a microcontroller board, which is responsible for receiving and analyzing signals acquired by a Myoware muscle device. The Myoware device accepts muscle signals and sends them to the controller. The controller interprets the received signals based on the designed artificial neural network. In this design, the muscle signals are read and saved in a MATLAB system file. After neural network program processing by MATLAB, they are then applied online to the prosthetic hand. The obtained signal, i.e., electromyogram, is programmed to control the motion of the prosthetic hand with similar behavior to a real human hand. The designed system is tested on seven individuals at Gaziantep University. Due to the sufficient signal of the Mayo armband compared to Myoware sensors, Mayo armband muscle is applied in the proposed system. The discussed results have been shown to be satisfactory in the final proposed system. This system was a feasible, useful, and cost-effective solution for the handless or amputated individuals. They have used the system in their day-to-day activities that allowed them to move freely, easily, and comfortably.

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Low-cost wearable multichannel surface EMG acquisition for prosthetic hand control

2015 6th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI) ◽

10.1109/iwasi.2015.7184964 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Davide Brunelli ◽

Andualem Maereg Tadesse ◽

Bernhard Vodermayer ◽

Markus Nowak ◽

Claudio Castellini

Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

Surface Emg ◽

Prosthetic Hand ◽

Hand Control

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A NOVEL PROPORTIONAL AND SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL METHOD FOR PROSTHETIC HAND

Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology ◽

10.1142/s0219519417501202 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 17 (08) ◽

pp. 1750120 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

XIN LI ◽

QIANG HUANG ◽

JINYING ZHU ◽

WENTAO SUN ◽

HAOTIAN SHE

Keyword(s):

Time Delay ◽

Control Method ◽

Prosthetic Hand ◽

Wrist Flexion ◽

Simultaneous Control ◽

Flexion Extension ◽

Hand Control ◽

System Input ◽

And Performance ◽

Semg Signals

This paper proposes a novel control method of using the surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals to predict the kinematics of hand and wrist, which will be applied in the prosthetic hand control. Prediction of movement in 3 degree-of-freedoms’ (DoFs’) (wrist flexion/extension (WFE), lateral abduction/adduction (LAA), and hand open/close (HOC)) is investigated in this paper. The proposed control method contains a time-delay recurrent neural network (TDRNN), adopting the previous prediction of the joint angles and the time-delay sEMG signals as the system input. This proposed method uses a batch training based on Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) algorithm to learn the weights of the TDRNN. The trained TDRNN is aimed to achieve simultaneous and proportional regression from human movements of the 3 DoFs to those of the prosthetic hand. Three able-bodied subjects are chosen to participate in the test and demonstrate its feasibility and performance. The offline test result R2 ranges between 0.81 and 0.94. The online test results show that TDRNN reacts faster, which verifies that the method proposed in this paper will be feasible and effective in prosthetic hand control.

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A simple control method to avoid overshoot for prosthetic hand control

2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) ◽

10.1109/icinfa.2014.6932749 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Xiao-Gang Duan ◽

Yi Zhang ◽

Hua Deng

Keyword(s):

Control Method ◽

Prosthetic Hand ◽

Hand Control

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A New Control Method for Vibration and Noise Suppression in Switched Reluctance Machines

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12081554 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 1554 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Man Zhang ◽

Imen Bahri ◽

Xavier Mininger ◽

Cristina Vlad ◽

Hongqin Xie ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Control Strategy ◽

Noise Suppression ◽

Control Method ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Low Cost ◽

Radial Force ◽

Torque Control ◽

Transient Condition ◽

Switched Reluctance ◽

Switched Reluctance Machines

Due to their inherent advantages such as low cost, robustness and wide speed range, switched reluctance machines (SRMs) have attracted great attention in electrical vehicles. However, the vibration and noise problems of SRMs limit their application in the automotive industry because of the negative impact on driver and passengers’ comfort. In this paper, a new control method is proposed to improve the vibratory and acoustic behavior of SRMs. Two additional control blocks —direct force control (DFC) and reference current adapter (RCA)—are introduced to the conventional control method (average torque control (ATC)) of SRM. DFC is adopted to control the radial force in the teeth of the stator, since the dynamic of the radial force has a large impact on the vibratory performance. RCA is proposed to handle the trade-off between the DFC and ATC. It produces an auto-tuning current reference to update the reference current automatically depending on the control requirement. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by experimental results under both steady and transient condition. The results show that the proposed method improves the acoustic performance of the SRM and maintains the dynamic response of it, which proves the potential of the proposed control strategy.

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EMG and ENG-envelope pattern recognition for prosthetic hand control

Journal of Neuroscience Methods ◽

10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.10.004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 311 ◽

pp. 38-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Emiliano Noce ◽

Alberto Dellacasa Bellingegni ◽

Anna Lisa Ciancio ◽

Rinaldo Sacchetti ◽

Angelo Davalli ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Pattern Recognition ◽

Prosthetic Hand ◽

Hand Control ◽

Envelope Pattern

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Comparison of remote pressure and vibrotactile feedback for prosthetic hand control

2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) ◽

10.1109/biorob.2012.6290268 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Camilo Tejeiro ◽

Cara E. Stepp ◽

Mark Malhotra ◽

Eric Rombokas ◽

Yoky Matsuoka

Keyword(s):

Prosthetic Hand ◽

Vibrotactile Feedback ◽

Hand Control

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Design of Orbit Controls for a Multiple CubeSat Mission Using Drift Rate Modulation

Aerospace ◽

10.3390/aerospace8110323 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 323

Author(s):

Youngbum Song ◽

Sang-Young Park ◽

Geuk-Nam Kim ◽

Dong-Gu Kim

Keyword(s):

Drift Rate ◽

Time Synchronization ◽

Control Method ◽

Low Cost ◽

Relative Distance ◽

Laser Communication ◽

Surveillance Systems ◽

Rate Modulation ◽

Orbit Control ◽

Orbital Drift

For the low-cost improvement of laser communication, which is critical for various applications such as surveillance systems, a study was conducted on relative distance control based on orbital drift rate modulations for multiple CubeSats during formation flying. The VISION mission covered in this paper comprises two CubeSats to demonstrate laser communication technology in space. During the mission, the deputy CubeSat changes the relative distance to execute mission objectives within various scenarios. Impulsive controls decrease, maintain, and increase the relative distance between the CubeSats by changing the orbital drift rates. The simulation results indicated that the desired orbital operation can be conducted within a given ΔV budget. In addition, the errors in the orbit determination, thrust maneuvers, and time synchronization were analyzed to satisfy the mission requirements. The mass-to-area ratio should be matched to adjust the relative distance between satellites with different properties by drift rate modulation. The proposed orbit control method appropriately operated the VISION mission by adjusting the drift rate modulation. The results of this study serve as a basis for the development of complex orbit control simulations and detailed designs that reflect the characteristics of the thrust module and operational aspects.

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