Development of a BIONic muscle spindle for prosthetic proprioception

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1031-1041

  Sachs, Nicholas A ^a   Loeb, Gerald E ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Kinesthesia; Muscle spindle; Neural prosthesis; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MUSCLE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TELEMETERING;

CONSCIOUS SENSATION; LIMB MOVEMENTS; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NEURAL PROSTHESIS;

PROSTHETICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JOINT MOBILITY; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONITORING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSOR; TELEMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIOMIMETICS; BIONICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TELEMETRY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34249340464     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.892924     Document Type: Article

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