Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
2011
Department
Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
Abstract
This paper presents a design and implementation of a neural-machine interface (NMI) for artificial legs that can decode amputee's intended movement in real time. The newly designed NMI integrates an FPGA chip for fast processing and a microcontroller unit (MCU) with multiple on-chip analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for real-time data sampling. The resulting embedded system is able to sample in real time 12 EMG signals and 6 mechanical signals and execute a special complex phase-dependent classifier for accurate recognition of the user's intended locomotion modes. The implementation and evaluation are based on Altera's Stratix III 3S150 FPGA device coupled with Freescale's MPC5566 MCU. The experimental results for classifying three locomotion modes (level-ground walking, stairs ascent, and stairs descent) based on data collected from an able-bodied human subject have shown acceptable performance for real-time controlling of artificial legs.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Citation/Publisher Attribution
X. Zhang, H. Huang and Q. Yang, "A special purpose embedded system for neural machine interface for artificial legs," 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2011, pp. 5207-5210, doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091288
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091288
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