Standing stability enhancement with an intelligent powered transfemoral prosthesis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2617-2624

  Lawson, Brian Edward ^a   Varol, Huseyin Atakan ^a   Goldfarb, Michael ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground adaptation; inertial measurement; lower limb prosthesis; powered prosthesis; transfemoral prosthesis

Indexed keywords

GROUND ADAPTATION; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; LOWER LIMB PROSTHESIS; POWERED PROSTHESIS; TRANSFEMORAL PROSTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; CONTROLLERS; JOINTS (ANATOMY);

JOINT PROSTHESES;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANKLE; ANKLE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROL SYSTEM; DEVICE; DISABLED PERSON; GRAVITY; GYROSCOPE; HUMAN; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; KINEMATICS; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LEG MOVEMENT; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; POWERED PROSTHESIS; ROBOTICS; STANDING; TRANSFEMORAL PROSTHESIS; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING;

ALGORITHMS; AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIONICS; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; POSTURE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052044031     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2160173     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. C. C. Cowie, K. F. Rust, D. D. Byrd-Holt, M. S. Eberhardt, K. M. Flegal, M. M. Engelgau, S. H. Saydah, D. E. Williams, L. S. Geiss, and E. W. Gregg, "Prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in adults in the U.S. Population: National health and nutrition examination survey 1999-2002," Diabetes Care, vol. 29, pp. 1263-1268, Jun. 2006. (Pubitemid 44125920)
2. K. Ziegler-Graham, E. J. MacKenzie, P. L. Ephraim, T. G. Travison, and R. Brookmeyer, "Estimating the prevalence of limb loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 89, pp. 422-429, Mar. 2008. (Pubitemid 351273168)
3. W. C. Miller, M. Speechley, and B. Deathe, "The prevalence and risk factors of falling and fear of falling among lower extremity amputees," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 82, pp. 1031-1037, Aug. 2001. (Pubitemid 32744328)
4. L. E. Powell and A. M. Myers, "The activities-specific balance confidence (ABC) scale," J. Gerontol A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci., vol. 50A, pp. M28-M34, Jan. 1995.
5. W.C.Miller, M.Speechley, andA.B.Deathe, "Balance confidence among people with lower-limb amputations," Phys. Ther., vol. 82, pp. 856-865, Sep. 2002.
6. E. Isakov, J. Mizrahi, H. Ring, Z. Susak, and N. Hakim, "Standing sway and weight-bearing distribution in people with below-knee amputations," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 73, pp. 174-178, Feb. 1992.
7. J. G. Buckley, D. O'Driscoll, and S. J. Bennett, "Postural sway and active balance performance in highly active lower-limb amputees," Am. J. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 81, pp. 13-20, Jan. 2002. (Pubitemid 34027956)
8. M. Lord and D. M. Smith, "Foot loading in amputee stance," Prosthet Orthot Int., vol. 8, pp. 159-164, Dec. 1984. (Pubitemid 15186584)
9. A. H. Vrieling, H. G. van Keeken, T. Schoppen, E. Otten, A. L. Hof, J. P. Halbertsma, and K. Postema, "Balance control on a moving platform in unilateral lower limb amputees," Gait Posture, vol. 28, pp. 222-228, Aug. 2008. (Pubitemid 351899115)
10. P. R. Rougier and J. Bergeau, "Biomechanical analysis of postural control of persons with transtibial or transfemoral amputation," Am. J. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 88, pp. 896-903, Nov. 2009.
11. D. Datta, B. Heller, and J. Howitt, "A comparative evaluation of oxygen consumption and gait pattern in amputees using intelligent prostheses and conventionally damped knee swing-phase control," Clin. Rehabil., vol. 19, pp. 398-403, Jun. 2005. (Pubitemid 40716417)
12. T. Chin, S. Sawamura, R. Shiba, H. Oyabu, Y. Nagakura, I. Takase, K. Machida, and A. Nakagawa, "Effect of an intelligent prosthesis (IP) on the walking ability of young transfemoral amputees: Comparison of ip users with able-bodied people," Am. J. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 82, pp. 447-451, Jun. 2003. (Pubitemid 36927349)
13. K. R. Kaufman, J. A. Levine, R. H. Brey, S. K. McCrady, D. J. Padgett, and M. J. Joyner, "Energy expenditure and activity of transfemoral amputees using mechanical and microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 89, pp. 1380-1385, 2008. (Pubitemid 351885002)
14. R. Seymour, B. Engbretson, K. Kott, N. Ordway, G. Brooks, J. Cran-nell, E. Hickernell, and K. Wheeler, "Comparison between the C-leg* microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee and non-microprocessor control prosthetic knees: A preliminary study of energy expenditure, obstacle course performance, and quality of life survey," Pros. Orth. Int., vol. 31, pp. 51-61, 2007. (Pubitemid 46416692)
15. M. S. Orendurff, A. D. Segal, G. K. Klute, M. L. McDowell, J.A. Pecoraro, and J. M. Czerniecki, "Gait efficiency using the C-leg," J. Rehabil. Res. Dev., vol. 43, pp. 239-246, Mar./Apr. 2006. (Pubitemid 44099171)
16. A. D. Segal, M. S. Orendurff, G. K. Klute, M. L. McDowell, J. A. Pecoraro, J. Shofer, and J. M. Czerniecki, "Kinematic and kinetic comparisons of transfemoral amputee gait using C-leg and mauch sns prosthetic knees," J. Rehabil. Res. Dev., vol. 43, pp. 857-870, Nov./Dec. 2006. (Pubitemid 46449927)
17. B. J. Hafner, L. L. Willingham, N. C. Buell, K. J. Allyn, and D. G. Smith, "Evaluation of function, performance, and preference as transfemoral amputees transition from mechanical to microprocessor control of the prosthetic knee," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 88, pp. 207-217, 2007. (Pubitemid 46161319)
18. S. T. Blumentritt, T. Schmalz, and R. Jarasch, "Safety of C-leg: Biomechanical tests," J. Pros. Orth., vol. 21, pp. 2-17, 2009.
19. K. R. Kaufman, J. A. Levine, R. H. Brey, B. K. Iverson, S. K. McCrady, D. J. Padgett, and M. J. Joyner, "Gait and balance of transfemoral amputees using passive mechanical and microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees," Gait Posture, vol. 26, pp. 489-493, 2007. (Pubitemid 47419334)
20. K. Mâaref, N. Martinet, C. Grumillier, S. Ghannouchi, J. M. Andre, and J. Paysant, "Kinematics in the terminal swing phase of unilateral transfemoral amputees: Microprocessor-controlled versus swing-phase control prosthetic knees," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 91, pp. 919-925, 2010.
21. M. Bellmann, T. Schmalz, and S. Blumentritt, "Comparative biomechanical analysis of current microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee joints," Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil., vol. 91, pp. 644-652, 2010.
22. D. Moser, F. Abimosleh, S. Zahedi, G. Harris, J. Ross, and J. McCarthy, "Biomechanical analysis of a novel automatically self-aligning ankle-foot prosthesis," Orthopädie-Technik Quarterly, 2009.
23. R. J. Williams, A. H. Hansen, and S. A. Gard, "Prosthetic ankle-foot mechanism capable of automatic adaptation to the walking surface," ASME J. Biomech. Eng., vol. 131, pp. 35002-1-35002-7, Mar. 2009.
24. H. G. Ragnarsdottir, A. V. Calusen, H. Thorhallsdottir, and H. Jonsson, "System and method for motion-controlled foot unit," U.S. Patent 7 637 957, Dec. 29, 2009.
25. S. K. Au, H. Herr, J. Weber, and E. C. Martinez-Villalpando, "Powered ankle-foot prosthesis for the improvement of amputee ambulation," in Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. Conf., 2007, vol. 2007, pp. 3020-3026.
26. R. Bellman, A. Holgate, and T. Sugar, "Sparky 3: Design of an active robotic ankle prosthesis with two actuated degrees of freedom using regenerative kinetics," in Proc. IEEE/RAS-EMBS Int Conf. Biomed. Robot. Biomechatron., Oct. 2008, pp. 511-516.
27. E. Martinez-Villalpando, J. Weber, G. Elliott, and H. Herr, "Design of an agonist-antagonist active knee prosthesis," in Proc. IEEE/RAS-EMBS Int. Conf. Biomed. Robot. Biomechatron., Oct. 2008, pp. 529-534.
28. S. Au, M. Berniker, and H. Herr, "Powered ankle-foot prosthesis to assist level-ground and stair-descent gaits," IEEE Trans. Neural Netw., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 654-666, May 2008.
29. S. K. Au, J. Weber, and H. Herr, "Powered ankle-foot prosthesis improves walking metabolic economy," IEEE Trans. Robot., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 51-66, Feb. 2009.
30. J. K. Hitt, T. G. Sugar, M. Holgate, and R. Bellman, "An active foot-ankle prosthesis with biomechanical energy regeneration," J. Med. Dev., vol. 4, pp. 011003-011009, 2010.
31. F. Sup, H. A. Varol, J. Mitchell, T. J. Withrow, and M. Goldfarb, "Preliminary evaluations of a self-contained anthropomorphic transfemoral prosthesis," IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatronics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 667-676, Dec. 2009.
32. H. A. Varol, F. Sup, and M. Goldfarb, "Powered sit-to-stand and assistive stand-to-sit framework for a powered transfemoral prosthesis," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rehabil. Robot., Jun. 2009, pp. 645-651.
33. F. Sup, H. A. Varol, and M. Goldfarb, "Upslope walking with a powered knee and ankle prosthesis: Initial results with an amputee subject," IEEE Trans. Neural. Syst. Rehabil. Eng., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 71-78, Feb. 2011.
34. K. H. Ha, H. A. Varol, and M. Goldfarb, "Volitional control of a prosthetic knee using surface electromyography," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 144-151, Jan. 2011.
35. H. A. Varol, F. Sup, and M. Goldfarb, "Multiclass real-time intent recognition of a powered lower limb prosthesis," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 542-551, Mar. 2010.
36. D. A. Winter, A. E. Patla, F. Prince, M. Ishac, and K. Gielo-Perczak, "Stiffness control of balance in quiet standing," J. Neurophysiol., vol. 80, pp. 1211-1221, Sep. 1998. (Pubitemid 28495721)
37. D. A. Winter, A. E. Patla, S. Rietdyk, and M. G. Ishac, "Ankle muscle stiffness in the control of balance during quiet standing," J. Neurophysiol., vol. 85, pp. 2630-2633, Jun. 2001. (Pubitemid 32525539)
38. K. Aminian, P. Robert, E. Jequier, and Y. Schutz, "Incline, speed, and distance assessment during unconstrained walking," Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., vol. 27, pp. 226-234, Feb. 1995.
39. W. Svensson and U. Holmberg, "Foot and ground measurement using portable sensors," in Proc. 9th Int. Conf. Rehabil. Robot., Jun./Jul. 2005, pp. 448-451. (Pubitemid 44017847)