Controlling Locomotion Over Continuously Varying Activities for Agile Powered Prosthetic Legs
University of Michigan
40 participants
Dec 6, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The overall goal of this project is to model human joint biomechanics over continuously-varying locomotion to enable adaptive control of powered above-knee prostheses. The central hypothesis of this project is that variable joint impedance can be parameterized by a continuous model based on measurable quantities called phase and task variables. This project will use machine learning to identify variable impedance functions from able-bodied data including joint perturbation responses across the phase/task space to bias the solution toward biological values.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- Aged between 18 to 65 years
- Aged between 18 to 70 years.
- Weigh less than 250 lbs due to limitations in the design of the prosthesis.
- Amputee subjects will be more than two months post independent ambulation with an amputation at the transfemoral level in order to use the above-knee prosthesis.
- Amputee subjects will have a mobility classification of K2/K3/K4 ambulators (minimum community ambulatory) and have the ability to ambulate without an assistive device beyond their prosthesis.
Exclusion Criteria15
- Pregnant (self-report)
- Any significant neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorder that would interfere with the study
- Unable to walk for 20 minutes
- History of any cardiovascular, vestibular, or visual diseases and/or impairments that may interfere with the study
- Cognitive deficits that would impair their ability to give informed consent or impair their ability to follow simple instructions during the experiments. In the case of screening for cognitive deficits, the consenting researcher will ask the subject if he/she has any prior history of cognitive deficits.
- Adults with a known allergy to medical grade tape
- Weigh over 250 pounds body
- Pregnant (self-report)
- Any significant neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorder that would interfere with the study
- Inactive or physically unfit, unable to walk for 20 minutes
- An excessively long residual limb length, and/or a non-removable cosmetic cover determined by the prosthetist performing the evaluations
- 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. In the case of screening for cognitive deficits, the consenting researcher will ask the subject if he/she has any prior history of cognitive deficits.
- Co-morbidity that interferes with the study (e.g., pace maker placement, severe ischemia, cardiac disease, etc.)
- Adults unable to consent
- Adults with a known allergy to medical grade tape
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Interventions
A powered prosthesis will be used to restore normative leg biomechanics to above-knee amputee participants during different activities of daily life.
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NCT06138977