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Ultrasound can non-invasively detect muscle deformations, which has great potential applications in prosthetic hand control. This research developed a miniaturized ultrasound device that could be integrated into a prosthetic hand socket. This compact system included four A-mode ultrasound transducers, a signal processing module, and a prosthetic hand control module. The size of the ultrasound system was 65 * 75 * 25 mm, weighing only 85 g. For the first time, we integrated the ultrasound system into a prosthetic hand socket to evaluate its performance in practical prosthetic hand control. We designed an experiment to perform six commonly used gestures, and the classification accuracy was \(95.33\%\,\pm \, 7.26\%\) for a participant. These experimental results demonstrated the efficacy of the designed prosthetic system based on the miniaturized A-mode ultrasound device, paving the way for an effective HMI system that could be widely used in prosthetic hand control.
This work was supported by the China National Key R &D Program (Grant No. 2020YFC207800), Shanghai Pujiang Program (Grant No. 20PJ1408000), the National Natrual Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52175023), and the Guangdong Science and Technology Research Council (Grant 2020B1515120064).
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Yin, Z. et al. (2022). Wearable Ultrasound Interface for Prosthetic Hand Manipulation. In: Liu, H., et al. Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13457. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13835-5_1
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