• 대한물리치료과학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2002

This purpose of this study was to design the effect of recovering of a hand amputees by Myoelectronic hand. It was designed with 2 degree of freedom in the laboratory. Myoelectronic hand had only one degree of freedom and one movement until now. Also this myoelectronic hand had multi-joint and it could move widely. Wire was used in transmission. Myoelectronic hand data was obtained by analyzing hand anatomically and measuring and that data was applied when it was designed. PID controller of Myoelectronic hand was used to it. Displacement control was applied the first link. Experiment was accomplished in Tip grasp, Power grasp and Hook grasp modes. Displacement control was good in low frequency. Velocity control was applied to each mode. The objective of the study was to develop more better multifunction myoelectronic control strategies. A myoelectronic hand with a hand amputees could do some jobs such as grasping materials, lifting weighting, holding cup and etc. As a result of this study, all subjects with hand amputees significantly improved in ADL. Further studies were needed to evaluate the effect of a myoelectronic hand with more precise laboratory equipment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.824-832
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• 2011

An essential consideration to differentiate prosthetic hand from robot hand is its convenience and usefulness rather than high resolution or multi-function of the robot hand. Therefore, this study proposes a myoelectric hand with a 2 DOF auto wrist module which has 6 essential functions of the human hand such as open, grasp, pronation, supination, extension, flexion, which improves the convenience of the daily life. It consists of the 3 main parts, the myoelectric sensor for input signal without additional attachment to operate the prosthetic hand, hand mechanism with high-torqued auto-transmission mechanism and self-locking module which guarantee the safety under the abrupt emergency and minimum power consumption, and dual threshold based controller to make easy for adopting the multi-DOF myoelectric hand. We prove the validity of the proposed system with experimental results.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.80-87
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• 1995

The purpose of this case study was to introduce a myoelectric hand prosthesis for upper extremity amputee and prosthetic training program. Limb loss can result from disease, injury, or congenital causes. Trauma has been increasingly important role as the cause of amputaion in young, vigorous, and otherwise healthy individuals. The higher the level of amputation the greater the functional loss of the part, and the more the amputee must depend on the prostheis for fuction and cosmesis. Myoelectrical control of prostheses is a recent development and has been steadily gaining in clinical use over the past 20 years. Such a prosthesis uses signals from muscle contraction within the stump to activate a battery driven moter that operates specific component fuctions of the prosthesis. This twenty years old male case was operated a right above-elbow amputation due to tracffic accident and admitted to Yonsei Rehabilitaion hospital for the preprosthetic and prosthetic training. The case was able to successfully complete his myoelectric hand prosthesis training in the February of 1995.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1248-1255
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• 2011

In daily life, another major role of human hand is a communicative function using hand gestures besides grasp function. Therefore, if amputees can express their intention by the prosthetic hand, they can much actively participate in social activities. Thus, this paper propose myoelectric multi-function prosthetic hand which can express 6 useful hand gestures such as Rock, Scissors, Paper, Indexing, Ok and Thumb-up. It was designed as under-actuated structure to minimize volume and weight of the prosthetic hand. Moreover, in order to effectively control various hand gestures by only two EMG sensors, we propose a control strategy that the signal type are expanded as "Strong" and "Light", and hand gestures are hierarchically classified for the intuitive control. Finally, we prove the validity of the developed prosthetic hand with the experiment.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.247-249
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• 2007

This paper proposes a dry-type surface myoelectric sensor for the myoelectric hand prosthesis. The designed surface myoelectric sensor is composed of skin interface and processing circuits. The skin interface has one reference and two input electrodes, and the reference electrode is located in the center of two input electrodes. Considering the conduction velocity and the median frequency of the myoelectric signal, the inter-electrode distance (IED) between two input electrodes as 18mm, 20mm, and 22mm is selected. The signal processing circuit consists of a differential amplifier with a band pass filter, a band rejection filter for rejecting 60㎐ power-line noise, amplifier, and a level circuit. Using SUS440, six prototype skin interface with different reference electrode shape and IED is fabricated, and their output characteristics are evaluated by output signal obtained from the forearm of a healthy subject. The experimental results show that the skin interface with parallel bar shape and the 18mm IED has a good output characteristics. The fabricated dry-type surface myoelectric sensor is evaluated for the upper-limb amputee.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2024

과거부터 상지 절단 장애인을 위한 여러 종류의 보조기가 개발되어 왔으며, 이 중 근전전동의수는 사용자의 편의성 향상을 목적으로 단순 파지 가능 사용에서 물체의 크기와 형태에 따라 다양한 손동작을 변환하여 사용하는 연구가 요구되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 사람 손 크기와 손가락 움직임을 모사하여 모터와 웜 기어의 구동 메커니즘을 적용한 5 손가락 근전전동의 수를 개발하였다. 이를 바탕으로 근전도 신호 입력을 통한 손가락의 독립적 제어를 위한 제어기를 개발하고, 대표 8가지 손동작 선정, 변환 조건 파라미터 선정을 통한 상태 전이 기반 손동작 변환 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 훈련과 사용성 평가 방법을 소개하고, 이를 바탕으로 손기능 전용 도구를 이용한 상지 절단 장애인 대상의 사용성 평가를 진행하여 알고리즘의 상용화 가능성을 확인하였으며, 반복적인 평가를 통한 사용자의 적응과 높은 수행 능력을 확인하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.471-478
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• 2004

근육의 수의 수축에 의해 발생하는 근전도 신호는 다른 생체 신호보다는 비교적 출력 특성이 뛰어나기 때문에 많은 재활 시스템에 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 상지 절단 환자 혹은 경추 손상에 의한 마비 환자를 위한 근전도 기반의 휴먼-컴퓨터 인터페이스를 제안한다. 사용자는 독립적으로 수의 수축이 가능한 두 근육 부위를 각기 혹은 동시에 움직임으로써 최대 4가지의 의도를 표현할 수 있다. 근육의 수축 정도는 근전도 진폭 신호의 절대 평균값과 미리 정해둔 문턱치를 비교하여 인식한다. 그러나 사용자가 동시에 두 근육을 수축하고자 할지라도 각각의 근육 발화 시점에 따른 시간차가 발생할 수 있기 때문에, 단순한 비교 방법으로는 동시 수의 수축에 관한 사용자의 의도를 정확하게 인식하기 어렵다. 따라서 근육의 수의 수축의 인식에 필요한 문턱치를 주 문턱치와 보조 문턱치의 이중 문턱치를 갖는 인식 방법을 제안한다. 이중 문턱치 인식 방법에 의해 두 근육이 동시에 수의 수축할 때에도 정확한 인식이 가능하므로, 각기 하나의 근육 수축 상태만을 인식하는 HCI보다도 많은 수의 인터페이스 명령을 생성할 수 있다. 구현한 실시간 근전도 처리 하드웨어를 이용하여, 정상인과 전완 절단 장애자에 대한 실험으로부터 본 논문에서 제안하는 이중 문턱치를 이용한 인식방법이 관전 의수와 전동 휠체어 제어용 HCI에 적용될 수 있음을 보인다.