An Assessment Platform For Upper Limb Myoelectric Prothesis

Abstract

An assessment platform was developed to evaluate technical performance of upper limb myoelectric prosthetic devices.  It consists of an “Acquisition Module”, a “Signal Capture Module”, a “Programmable Signal Generation Module”, and an “Activation and Measurement Module”.  The platform can be used to acquire and study real time electromyographic (EMG) signals, to custom-build activation signals for myoelectric prosthesis and to measure the performance of myoelectric prostheses.  The assessment platform was built on a National Instrument LabVIEW data acquisition system with transducers, instrumentation amplifiers and signal processing circuits.