Abstract
Prosthetic arms are designed to assist amputated individuals in the performance of the activities of daily life. Brain machine interfaces are currently employed to enhance the accuracy as well as number of control commands for upper limb prostheses. However, the motion prediction for prosthetic arms and the rehabilitation of amputees suffering from transhumeral amputations is limited. In this paper, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based approach for the recognition of human intention for six upper limb motions is proposed. The data were extracted from the study of fifteen healthy subjects and three transhumeral amputees for elbow extension, elbow flexion, wrist pronation, wrist supination, hand open, and hand close. The fNIRS signals were acquired from the motor cortex region of the brain by the commercial NIRSport device. The acquired data samples were filtered using finite impulse response (FIR) filter. Furthermore, signal mean, signal peak and minimum values were computed as feature set. An artificial neural network (ANN) was applied to these data samples. The results show the likelihood of classifying the six arm actions with an accuracy of 78%. The attained results have not yet been reported in any identical study. These achieved fNIRS results for intention detection are promising and suggest that they can be applied for the real-time control of the transhumeral prosthesis.
Highlights
Amputation refers to the removal of a human limb due to an illness, accident, or trauma
The functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals were acquired for six arm motions: elbow extension (E.E), elbow flexion (E.F), wrist pronation (W.P), and wrist supination (W.S), hand open (H.O), and hand close (H.C)
The fNIRS signals are acquired from the motor cortex region of the brain using NIRSport from NIRx Technology
Summary
Amputation refers to the removal of a human limb due to an illness, accident, or trauma. To overcome human limb loss, an artificial device (prosthetics) is provided [1]. Amputees wear transhumeral prosthetic arms to substitute for the loss of elbow and lower portion of arm [2]. A human upper limb can perform seven different motions associated with joints in the arm. Three arm motions are mandatory for transhumeral prosthesis, including elbow extension–flexion, wrist supination–pronation, and hand opening and closing. Advances in the field of biomechatronic have opened new doors to expand the use and applications of prosthetic devices for amputees. The control of such prosthetic arms is new area for researchers to explore. Bio signals are preferably used for intention detection that further triggers the implementation of control
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