This week I'll be in Chicago at RIC, Center for Bionic Medicine doing some experiments with neural controls for powered prosthetics.
Today I had 24 EMG sensors on my stump for ~ 6 hours. We did various iterations of gathering data, traning classifiers, checking classifier accuracy against more gathered test data, then using those classifiers to realtime control a virtual limb. By the end of the day I was able to fairly accurately control flexion & extension of both my lower leg & ankle ( on a virtual avatar, mechanical devices to come later ). Very cool stuff.
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Awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so neat Zac. Though losing the limb is not cool, you are the perfect research patient for these docs. It is so neat that you are a part of paving the way for so many others. Keep the updates coming!
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