Design and implementation of a low power mobile CPU based embedded system for artificial leg control

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013:2013:5769-72. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610862.

Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of a new neural-machine-interface (NMI) for control of artificial legs. The requirements of high accuracy, real-time processing, low power consumption, and mobility of the NMI place great challenges on the computation engine of the system. By utilizing the architectural features of a mobile embedded CPU, we are able to implement our decision-making algorithm, based on neuromuscular phase-dependant support vector machines (SVM), with exceptional accuracy and processing speed. To demonstrate the superiority of our NMI, real-time experiments were performed on an able bodied subject with a 20 ms window increment. The 20 ms testing yielded accuracies of 99.94% while executing our algorithm efficiently with less than 11% processor loads.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Limbs*
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces*
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Electromyography
  • Humans
  • Leg
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated
  • Software
  • Support Vector Machine