Design and Development of Low cost Prosthetic Hand controlled by Myoelectric Signal Keerthana A.1,*, Rubi Jaya1, Srividhya1, Priya Sangeetha1 1Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vels Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai, India *Corresponding Author: A. Keerthana, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vels Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai, India, Email: keerthana.se@velsuniv.ac.in
Online published on 4 June, 2019. Abstract Amputee are the people who lost their part of the body due to various reason like accidents, trauma or any diseases. In this project hand amputees who suffer to do their daily activities like eating, holding the objects etc have been considered. Myoelectric signal is an electrical impulse that produces contraction and relaxation of muscle fibers which controls movements of the body. EMG controlled prosthetic device has more advantage because it will be activated by bio signal which is the part of their own body. In this project we focus on development of light weighted prosthetic hand. The developed prosthetic hand will be controlled by processed EMG signal acquired by placing electrodes on specific muscle to perform hand gesture movements. The developed light weight prosthetic hand controlled by EMG signal will be very useful for hand amputee to do their chores with ease. Top Keywords Amputees, myoelectric signal, Prosthetic hand. Top |