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Prosthetic Limb Essay

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The purpose of a prosthesis limb is to undertake the functions and appearance of a missing limb. There is a range of artificial limbs that are created, however the actual fact is that they're either simply a prosthetic limb that provides a additional natural appearance. while the opposite choice is additional mechanical which the main priority is to be as practical as possible; there's one piece of technology that has been recently created which has each factor within the technology. Myoelectric prosthesis limbs are the perfect technology; the aim for this technology is to share equally the needs of practicality and cosmetically, this technology doesn’t need to sacrifice appearance for practicality like most technology is that this field usually …show more content…

The electrodes were designed to record this specifically, so the future performance of the myoelectric technology will be achieved to hopefully achieve an enhancement of EMG information. These electrodes were used to test and evaluate the classification accuracy: 32 EMG recordings per movement were stimulated. The classification accuracies discovered in this test were averaged over all 11 movements, this was then used to calculate the overall classification accuracy. The LDA classifier was used to classify features extracted from the EMG signals from the upper limb in real time. The prediction of using analysis windows was 150ms with 50ms of overlap, leaving the prediction at 100ms (0.1 seconds). This real time classification was used to control a virtual reality arm and it was beyond successful. The time limit set by Guanglin Li (head research leader) was 5 seconds for the motion selection time; due to after approximately this amount of time the prosthesis would slow down, and the user would become frustrated and abandon the motion desired. As 5 seconds was the selected time limit, if the movement wasn’t completed in 5 seconds, including the processes of EMG signals accurately recognised by the quantifying pattern recognition; the motion selection would be counted as a failure and not be

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