Vision Controlled Sensorized Prosthetic Hand
This work addresses the need for accessible and user-friendly prosthetic hands for amputees, offering an alternative to EMG-based designs that require extensive training.
The paper tackled the problem of creating a prosthetic hand that replicates natural hand performance without requiring personalized training, resulting in a vision-controlled sensorized prototype that uses a camera and sensors for object grasping and gesture detection.
This paper presents a sensorized vision-enabled prosthetic hand aimed at replicating a natural hand's performance, functionality, appearance, and comfort. The design goal was to create an accessible substitution with a user-friendly interface requiring little to no training. Our mechanical hand uses a camera and embedded processors to perform most of these tasks. The interfaced pressure sensor is used to get pressure feedback and ensure a safe grasp of the object; an accelerometer is used to detect gestures and release the object. Unlike current EMG-based designs, the prototyped hand does not require personalized training. The details of the design, trade-offs, results, and informing the next iteration are presented in this paper.