The great divide - the human-machine interface. Issues in the control of prostheses, manipulators, and other human machine systems

@inproceedings{citeulike:2941264, abstract = {The shortage of physiologically appropriate independent control sources is probably the biggest impediment to the development and fitting of significantly more functional artificial limb replacements. The use of open-loop velocity control with visual feedback to control today's externally-powered artificial limb replacements further impedes the development of high performance multifunctional prostheses. Velocity control places an excessive mental burden on the user thereby limiting the number of degrees-of freedom that can be controlled in parallel. Both these issues and the implications they might have for the future control of multifunctional artificial limb replacements are explored.}, author = {Weir, R. F. }, booktitle = {Bioengineering Conference, 2003 IEEE 29th Annual, Proceedings of}, citeulike-article-id = {2941264}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2003.1216101}, journal = {Bioengineering Conference, 2003 IEEE 29th Annual, Proceedings of}, keywords = {emg, neural\_interface, prosthesis\_control}, pages = {275--276}, posted-at = {2008-06-29 13:11:23}, priority = {2}, title = {The great divide - the human-machine interface. Issues in the control of prostheses, manipulators, and other human machine systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2003.1216101}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2941264 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2941264 TI - The great divide - the human-machine interface. Issues in the control of prostheses, manipulators, and other human machine systems T2 - Bioengineering Conference, 2003 IEEE 29th Annual, Proceedings of JF - Bioengineering Conference, 2003 IEEE 29th Annual, Proceedings of SP - 275 EP - 276 N2 - The shortage of physiologically appropriate independent control sources is probably the biggest impediment to the development and fitting of significantly more functional artificial limb replacements. The use of open-loop velocity control with visual feedback to control today's externally-powered artificial limb replacements further impedes the development of high performance multifunctional prostheses. Velocity control places an excessive mental burden on the user thereby limiting the number of degrees-of freedom that can be controlled in parallel. Both these issues and the implications they might have for the future control of multifunctional artificial limb replacements are explored. KW - emg KW - neural_interface KW - prosthesis_control AU - Weir, RF PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2003.1216101 ER -