A Human-Machine Interface Using Electrical Impedance Tomography for Hand Prosthesis Control

• Published in: IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems Vol. 12; no. 6; pp. 1322 - 1333
• Main Authors: Wu, Yu, Jiang, Dai, Liu, Xiao, Bayford, Richard, Demosthenous, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.12.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Acidity; Analog circuits; Application specific integrated circuits; Artificial neural networks; Current driver; Current measurement; Electrical impedance; electrical impedance tomography; Electrodes; Forearm; Hand; hand prosthesis control; human–machine interface; Impedance; Instrumentation; instrumentation amplifier; Integrated circuits; Muscles; Neural networks; Power supplies; Prostheses; Prosthetics; Real time operation; Sodium channels; Switching theory; Tomography; Voltage measurement
• ISSN: 1932-4545; 1940-9990; 1940-9990
• DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2878395

This paper presents a human-machine interface that establishes a link between the user and a hand prosthesis. It successfully uses electrical impedance tomography, a conventional bio-impedance imaging technique, using an array of electrodes contained in a wristband on the user's forearm. Using...