How artificial intelligence can improve prosthetic limbs
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helps us not only with a complex computation, but improves the quality of life
Thanks to advances in modern science, mankind has been able to improve many things. For example, if you look at the pictures of the first invented artificial limbs and prostheses contemporary, you will notice a huge difference. Full dentures , but they still lacked precision, control the interaction forces with objects and so on. And then may come to the aid of artificial intelligence.
How artificial intelligence will help to improve the functionality of dentures
To understand the problem the work of contemporary prostheses, imagine a man with an amputated arm below elbow hand, managing a smart prosthesis. The sensors of such devices are attached to the remains of muscles and tendons, how-to «continuing» hand. Therefore, a person can control its movement about as well as usual hand. And here this man was able to grab objects on the table. But what's next? The many muscles and tendons that control the fingers disappeared, and with them the ability to accurately feel the weight and texture of the subject. All this allows us to interact with objects without even thinking about the mass parameters. When using the prosthesis (even very advanced) is almost impossible.
It is this and focused Swiss researchers from the Federal Polytechnic school of Lausanne (EPFL). In order not to miss such news, and lots of other unique materials subscribe to our . Experts have created that collected data on muscle signals when performing various movements and captures real people with real limbs. Due to the information received, the AI began to understand what type of capture of the item he needs to apply in each case. In addition, the system also provides protection from falling, allowing you to change the grip for about half a second before the subject begins to fall.
As a result, according to scientists, is captured «hard, but enough Naberezhno» in order not to damage or drop it. In this case stress is calculated for each user individually. At this stage all of this is still at the level of experiment and the work of the engineers used a third-party prosthesis, not developed specially for these purposes the device. However, now this approach allows us to evaluate the method «shared control» artificial intelligence and the man behind the movement, which could become the basis for the development of the next generation of intelligent prostheses.
the System is quite good responds to the commands coming from the muscles
Now the researchers plan to Refine the technology of the AI, collecting more additional data. In the future we should not exclude also the possibility of the appearance of the prostheses of other body parts , separate prosthetic hands and even individual fingers. While the technology is fairly easy to use: on the one hand it can be used when creating dentures «from scratch», and on the other to integrate in already existing systems, which is quite convenient.
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