Abstract
AbstractA Stewart platform is a six-degree-of-freedom parallel manipulator widely used as the motion base for flight simulators and antenna positioning systems, among others. This work presents a novel mechatronics-twin framework that integrates such a manipulator with advanced biomechanical models and simulations for effective exploration of operational behaviors of prosthetic sockets with amputees. By means of the biomechanical models and simulations, the framework allows the users to first analyze the fundamental operational characteristics of individual amputees according to their specific body geometries, pelvis-femur structures, and sizes of transfemoral sockets. Such operational characteristics are then fed to one Stewart platform as the reference control signals for the generation of dynamic loads and behaviors of prosthetic sockets that are otherwise difficult to observe or realize with the real amputees. Experiments in form of integration testing show that the proposed control strategy is capable of generating expected dynamic operational conditions. Currently, the mechatronics-twin framework supports a wide range of biomechanical configurations and the quantification of the respective intra-socket load conditions for socket design optimization and anomaly detection.
Funder
Horizon 2020
Royal Institute of Technology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Computer Science Applications,Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computational Theory and Mathematics,Artificial Intelligence,General Computer Science
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