Design an Electronic Prosthetic Arm for below the Elbow amputees, with ball and socket wrist movement and individual finger movement using electromyography.
These are the resources/inspiration for our design.
- Existing Prosthetics
- Low Cost 3D Printed Arm by Student: [- [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdf30e82dcd53187f20b7f4/t/5fe09c7ef5f64226567c5b9e/1608555676841/Low+Cost+Prosthetic+Arm+Thesis.pdf]
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- Bionic prosthetic arm using EMG pads: https://www.theguardian.com/personal-investments/ng-interactive/2019/feb/12/limbitless-3d-printed-bionic-prosthetic-limbs-for-kids
- Ottobock ErgoArm series (AFB control for a mechanical elbow) https://www.ottobock.com/en-us/product/12K50
- The Utah Arm 3+ (Simultaneous control of hand and elbow)https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800182.810395
- A research paper talking about the efficiency of existing finger prosthetics.https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800182.810395
- A video going over the biomechanics of a hand as a part of a video series on making biomimetic handshttps://youtu.be/DqGq5mnd_n4?si=vJKKNuDQeDBXY-CO
- EMG Controlled Prosthetic Hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnMnABNZ9E https://www.instructables.com/3D-Printed-EMG-Prosthetic-Hand/The “More from the author” section links to the next steps of the guides.
- Robotic Hand with Ball Joint Thumb - for complex dexterity https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/EthoHand%3A-A-dexterous-robotic-hand-with-ball-joint-Konnaris-Gavriel/3316a8a95bcc961f157e99afd83b6ccf76478b7b
- Differential Swerve!!!!! (Potential Wrist Joint Idea)https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Y1XtXkTUXsI
- A guide to making a muscle sensor by hand. (individual components on a breadboard instead of a PCB)
- Rubber Fingertips for gripping
- "The Thumb accounts for arguably 40 percent of human hand use design in critical in all prosthetic hands and is more complex than the other finger. "
- Differential swerve for the wrist rotation (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5579384)
- Companies: Mechanical Lower Limb prostheses (located in Houston) https://www.google.com/search?q=electronic+above+elbow+prosthetics&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS988US988&oq=electronic+above+elbow+prosthetics&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l4.14077j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8