Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Concept of Using the Brain-Computer Interface to Control Hand Prosthesis Cover

Concept of Using the Brain-Computer Interface to Control Hand Prosthesis

Open Access
|Oct 2023

Abstract

This study examines the possibility of implementing intelligent artificial limbs for patients after injuries or amputations. Brain-computer technology allows signals to be acquired and sent between the brain and an external device. Upper limb prostheses, however, are quite a complicated tool, because the hand itself has a very complex structure and consists of several joints. The most complicated joint is undoubtedly the saddle joint, which is located at the base of the thumb. You need to demonstrate adequate anatomical knowledge to construct a prosthesis that will be easy to use and resemble a human hand as much as possible. It is also important to create the right control system with the right software that will easily work together with the brain-computer interface. Therefore, the proposed solution in this work consists of three parts, which are: the Emotiv EPOC + Neuroheadsets, a control system made of a servo and an Arduino UNO board (with dedicated software), and a hand prosthesis model made in the three-dimensional graphic program Blender and printed using a 3D printer. Such a hand prosthesis controlled by a signal from the brain could help people with disabilities after amputations and people who have damaged innervation at the stump site.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14313/jamris/4-2022/27 | Journal eISSN: 2080-2145 | Journal ISSN: 1897-8649
Language: English
Page range: 3 - 12
Submitted on: Nov 8, 2022
Accepted on: Feb 7, 2023
Published on: Oct 20, 2023
Published by: Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2023 Julia Żaba, Szczepan Paszkiel, published by Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.