A multi-disciplined team of engineers, prosthetists, physicians, and amputees has developed a new trans-radial prosthesis currently completing second-year validation testing. The International Trans-radial Adjustable Limb, ...

We are in the process developing a new multifunctional hand mechanism in the hopes of providing a new mechanism that will have superior function over today’s single degree-offreedom (DOF) mechanisms and yet be clinically ...

Rejection rates of body-powered hands are higher than that of hooks. Body powered hands are inefficient. As a result they require an uncomfortable high activation force, and produce a relatively low pinch force in return ...

<p>The basic scaling laws that govern both turbomachinery and permanent magnet generator power density are presented. It is shown for turbomachinery, that the power density scales indirectly proportional with the characteristic ...

The goal of this investigation is to develop a multi-degree of freedom (DOF) prosthesis controller that uses myoelectric signals as control inputs and which has been dimensionally optimized using Principal Component Analysis ...

Myoelectric prosthesis are aids that try to give back to patients a bit of autonomy and indipendence in their life. Several control techniques were explored in the past, but still the electromyographic (EMG) control ...

The design of upper limb prostheses must be done on realistic bases taking into account the present technologies and getting of the best efficiency in their use without ignoring the economical factors. In authors’ opinion, ...

In the last few years the provision of prostheses for paediatric an upper limb deficit has become increasingly common. However,the earliest age at which externally powered devices might be useful is still the subject of ...

On the basis of the structures and activities of our previously identified non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), we designed and synthesized two sets of derivatives, diarylpyridines (A) and diarylanilines ...