System and method for controlling a prosthetic device
AssigneeUnited Arab Emirates University
InventorZulfiqar M. Aslam
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a system and method for motion recognition and control of a prosthetic device. The system of the present invention uses a movement detector for detecting dimensional motion of a non-disabled physical appendage and generating motion information based on this detecting. The system further includes a microcontroller adapted to be connected to the movement detector for receiving and processing the motion information transmitted from the one or more movement detectors. The system controls a prosthetic device which has actuators that are configured to actuate motion of the prosthetic device based on the processing of the motion information.
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A system for motion recognition and non-invasive control of a prosthetic device, the system comprising:
- a movement detector on the prosthetic device for detecting multi-dimensional motion of a non-disabled physical appendage and generating motion information based on said detecting;
- a microcontroller connected to said movement detector for receiving and processing the motion information transmitted from the movement detector;
- the prosthetic device, connected to the microcontroller, wherein the prosthetic device comprises one or more actuators which are configured to actuate motion of the prosthetic device, based on said processing of the motion information;
- wherein an authentication component collects data associated with characteristics of the non-disabled physical appendage and stores the characteristics in a memory, and determines whether the multi-dimensional motion detected by the movement detector matches characteristics of the non-disabled physical appendage collected and stored in the memory, as a condition of processing the motion information by the microcontroller.
A method for motion recognition and non-invasive movement control of a prosthetic device, the method comprising:
- detecting a movement conducted by a non-disabled physical appendage using a sensor on the prosthetic device;
- transmitting said detected movement to a microcontroller;
- processing motion information based on the transmitted detected movement and actuating motion of the prosthetic device based on the processed motion information;
- storing motion patterns conducted by the non-disabled appendage in a memory component for use in actuating movement in the prosthetic device at any time by a user of the prosthetic device;
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- authenticating the user by determining whether the detected movement matches the stored motion patterns of the non-disabled physical appendage and actuating motion of the prosthetic device only if it is the case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.