Extrinsic finger and thumb muscles command a virtual hand to allow individual finger and grasp control

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 218-226

  Birdwell, J Alexander ^a,b   Hargrove, Levi J ^a,c   Weir, Richard F ^d,e   Kuiken, Todd A ^a,c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

^e Eastern Colorado Veterans Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial hand; electromyogram (EMG); hand control; prosthetics

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; MUSCLE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROSTHETICS;

ARTIFICIAL HAND; COMPLETION TIME; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRINSIC HAND MUSCLES; GRASP CONTROLS; HAND CONTROL; NEUTRAL POSTURE; PERFORMANCE METRICS;

CONTROLLERS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FINGER; HAND GRIP; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TIME; ALGORITHM; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAND STRENGTH; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMIMETICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THUMB; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84919898022     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2344854     Document Type: Article

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