Shared Human-Machine Control for Self-Aware Prostheses
Henrique Dantas, Jacob Nieven, Tyler S. Davis, Xiao Fu, Gregory A. Clark, David J. Warren, V. John Mathews
Abstract
This paper presents a framework for shared, human-machine control of a prosthetic arm. The method employs electromyogram and peripheral neural signals to decode motor intent, and incorporates a higher-level goal in the controller to augment human effort. The controller derivation employs Markov Decision Processes. The system is trained using a gradient ascent approach in which the policy is parameterized using a Kalman Filter and the goal is incorporated by adapting the Kalman filter output online. Results of experimental performance analysis of the shared controller when the goal information is imperfect are presented in the paper. These results, obtained from an amputee subject and a subject with intact arms, demonstrate that a system controlled by the human user and the machine together exhibit better performance than systems employing machine-only or human-only control.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2018_sharedhumanmachi,
title = {Shared Human-Machine Control for Self-Aware Prostheses},
author = {Henrique Dantas and Jacob Nieven and Tyler S. Davis and Xiao Fu and Gregory A. Clark and David J. Warren and V. John Mathews},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2018},
year = {2018}
}