Effects of Different Tactile Feedback on Myoelectric Closed-Loop Control for Grasping Based on Electrotactile Stimulation

Closed-loop control is important for amputees to manipulate myoelectric prostheses intuitively and dexterously. Tactile feedback can help amputees improve myoelectric control performance for grasping objects. To investigate the effects of different tactile feedback, we performed experiments on six a...

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Published inIEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 827 - 836
Main Authors Xu, Heng, Zhang, Dingguo, Huegel, Joel C., Xu, Wendong, Zhu, Xiangyang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.08.2016
Subjects
Adult
Aged
Amputation Stumps - physiopathology
Artificial Limbs
Closed-loop control
Electric Stimulation - methods
Electromyography
Electromyography - methods
electrotactile stimulation
Feedback, Sensory
Female
Force
Grasping
grasping force
Hand - innervation
Hand - physiopathology
Hand - surgery
Hand Strength
Humans
Indexes
Male
Middle Aged
myoelectric prosthesis
Noise measurement
pressure feedback
Psychomotor Performance
slip feedback
Tactile sensors
Time measurement
Touch
Young Adult
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Summary:Closed-loop control is important for amputees to manipulate myoelectric prostheses intuitively and dexterously. Tactile feedback can help amputees improve myoelectric control performance for grasping objects. To investigate the effects of different tactile feedback, we performed experiments on six amputees and six able-bodied subjects via electrotactile stimulation. Using a virtual environment, six kinds of objects with different weights and stiffnesses were used for grasping tasks. Five feedback conditions (no feedback, pressure feedback, slip feedback, pressure + slip feedback, and vision feedback) were considered. Nine evaluation indexes and three control objectives (rapidity, economy, and stability) were proposed. Under the five feedback conditions, our study investigated four issues: 1) three types of grasping-related failures; 2) four types of grasping-related time measures; 3) average grasping force; 4) standard deviation of the grasping force. Results indicate that: 1) slip feedback is better than pressure feedback; 2) pressure + slip feedback can improve grasping rapidity; 3) slip feedback significantly contributes to grasping economy and stability; and 4) pressure + slip feedback can perform as well as vision feedback.
ISSN:1534-4320
1558-0210
DOI:10.1109/TNSRE.2015.2478153