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Description:: Individuals with severe motor impairments often have a difficult time performing daily activities, and thus rely heavily on assistive devices to restore some functional independence. The two main limitations of the current controllers for assistive devices are: 1) controllers that do not require coordinated hand movement provide a limited vocabulary...
Keyword:: Human machine interface, Redundancy, Motor learning, Power wheelchair, Rehabilitation, and Motor Noise
Subject:: Biomedical Engineering
Creator:: Elias Thorp
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/27/2018
Date Modified:: 04/27/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Pattern recognition algorithms have been proposed as a way to control powered lower limb prostheses, specifically for transitioning between the different pre-programmed locomotion modes of the prosthesis (e.g., level ground walking, stair ascent, etc.). However, these algorithms cannot track changes in the statistical characteristics of input signals, and do not...
Keyword:: Prosthetics, Adaptation, Rehabilitation, Engineering, and Machine Learning
Subject:: Biomedical Engineering
Creator:: John Andreou Spanias
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/13/2018
Date Modified:: 02/13/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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