Development of control interface for bimanual coordination for shoulder prosthesis users

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26282160
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: YU Wenwei 千葉大学, フロンティア医工学センター, 教授 (20312390)
• Research Collaborator: KURIKI Shiya ; WANG Liqun ; ROLF Pfeifer ; SEKINE Masashi
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 生体機能代行 / 福祉用具・機器

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This work aims to realize the coordination between a shoulder prosthesis and its user’s normal arm, for improving the usability of shoulder prostheses in daily living environment. The integration of the following achievements would make it possible. 1) Based on the multiple indexes, including motion range, impact absorption, the force needed by actuators, weight of the prosthesis, a procedure to develop prostheses for daily living use for each individual has been established, which enabled a light prosthetic arm for this project. 2) Based on experiment results on bimanual coordination measurement, a motion reconstruction for hand from the brain activity (Electroencephalogram) and the muscle activity information (Electromyogram), an adaptive controller for bimanual coordination has been built. 3) A scheme to evaluate the effect of sensory feedback to users using f-MRI was proposed and verified.

Free Research Field

医用ロボティクス