Adaptive Recalibration of Prosthetic Leg Neural Control System
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 22
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Decreased error rates for pattern recognition system used to predict ambulation modes
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is for transfemoral amputees to walk with an experimental robotic prosthesis. Electric signals will be measured from their muscles and used to help control an artificial leg. The investigators will record from sensors placed on a prosthesis and electric signals measured from muscles in the participants leg to see if the investigators can develop better computer programs to help predict subject actions and prostheses function.
详细描述
The investigators propose to use a powered knee-ankle prosthesis that is not yet commercially available. The hierarchical control framework the investigators are developing will be equally applicable to any prosthetic leg that needs to be transitioned between ambulation modes, including microprocessor-controlled passive devices.
The overall objective is to develop and evaluate an adaptive framework for controlling lower limb prostheses that compensates for changes in EMG signals. When a participant walks on a lower limb prosthesis, the output of the high-level controller (or ambulation mode predictor) directly influences patterns generated by the participant. After the participant has completed the subsequent stride, a gait pattern estimator (GPE), will provide a label of what the participant actually did. This may differ from the ambulation mode predictor output if there was a misclassification. The label will then be used to update the ambulation mode predictor algorithm such that future steps are predicted with higher accuracies. Finally, the resulting system will be transferred to an embedded system and tested in real-time with transfemoral amputees and compared to a non-adaptive system.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 80 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Lower Limb Amputees
- •K2/K3/K4 ambulators
排除标准
- •Over 250lbs body weight
- •Inactive, physically unfit
- •cognitive deficits or visual impairment that would impair their ability to give informed consent or to follow simple instructions during the experiments
- •Pregnant women
- •co-morbidity that interferes with the study (e.g. stroke, pace maker placement, severe ischemia cardiac disease, etc.)
- •Able-bodied Subjects:
- •Inclusion Criteria:
- •no injury on either lower extremity
- •Exclusion Criteria:
- •inactive, physically unfit
- •over 250 lbs body weight
- •cognitive deficits or visual impairment that would impair their ability to give informed consent or impair their ability to follow simple instructions during the experiments
- •Pregnant women (status determined by self-reporting)
- •co-morbidity that interferes with the study (e.g. stroke, pace maker placement, severe ischemia cardiac disease, etc.)
结局指标
主要结局
Decreased error rates for pattern recognition system used to predict ambulation modes
时间窗: Assessed at approximately 2 months and 6 months after enrollment
Pattern recognition algorithms have been used to allow seamless and automatic transitioning between ambulation modes. Classification errors result in the prosthesis predicting the wrong ambulation mode. A decrease in errors results in improved mode prediction by the prosthesis. EMG from the participant and mechanical sensor data from the prosthesis are processed with the use of a phase-based-dependent pattern recognition classification method. The data collection will yield three groups of 10 real-time trials. The investigators primary analysis will be a repeated measures ANOVA with a planned contrast between the groups. The investigators will also complete a secondary analysis using the data collected while the participants ambulated outside of the laboratory. The total number of misclassifications will be computed. This will allow the investigator to evaluate the rate at which the overall classification system adapted.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Levi Hargrove
Director, Neural Engineering for Prosthetics and Orthotics Laboratory
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab