| Author | Kirkpong Kiatpanichagij |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.ISE-03-36 |
| Subject(s) | Artificial hands
|
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. ISE-03-36 |
| Abstract | The multi Degree Of Freedom (DOF) prosthetic hands that are being developed by many
research groups still have the problem about interfacing with the user (the amputee). That
is, how an ordinary person can control the complex mechanism. In other word, how the
disabled person can generate many commands to control the prosthetic hand mechanism.
We can develop a controller for the prosthetic hand based on the observation that
bioelectric signal is generated when the forearm muscles are contracting (EMGElectroMyoGram
or ElectroMyoGraphic). For instance, the electronic controller circuit
will measure the EMG signal from the surface EMG electrode attached on the skin of the
amputee, analyze and interpret the measured signal and finally, send the corresponding
command to the prosthetic hand
In this thesis, the prototype of EMG recognition equipment is created. It is made by the
commercial EMG electrode-Ag(AgCl) material, EMG amplifier circuit developed by the
student, off-the-shelf data input card and the novel neural network based recognition
software using C++ language. The main contributions of this thesis are the low cost EMG
amplifier circuit and the framework to implement neural network in C++ language. |
| Year | 2003 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. ISE-03-36 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Afzulpurkar, Nitin V.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Guha, Sumanta;Manukid Parnichkun; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | H.M. King's scholarship - Thailand; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |