Shared Control of Bimanual Robotic Limbs With a Brain-Machine Interface for Self-Feeding.

ABSTRACT: Advances in intelligent robotic systems and brain-machine interfaces (BMI) have helped restore functionality and independence to individuals living with sensorimotor deficits; however, tasks requiring bimanual coordination and fine manipulation continue to remain unsolved given the technical complexity of controlling multiple degrees of freedom (DOF) across multiple limbs in a coordinated way through a user input. To address this challenge, we implemented a collaborative shared control strategy to manipulate and coordinate two Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL) for performing a bimanual self-feeding task. A human participant with microelectrode arrays in sensorimotor brain regions provided commands to both MPLs to perform the self-feeding task, which included bimanual cutting. Motor commands w

SUBMITTER: Handelman DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274256 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature