Davoodi Rahman, Loeb Gerald E
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;163:156-62.
In the increasingly complex prosthetic limbs for upper extremity amputees, more mechanical degrees of freedom are combined with various neural commands to produce versatile human-like movements. Development, testing, and fitting of such neural prosthetic systems and training patients to control them effectively are complex processes that cannot be performed efficiently or safely by ad hoc and trial-and-error approaches. We have developed a software tool known as MSMS to enable researchers and engineers to simulate the movement of these neural prostheses and evaluate their performance before they are built and to train the patients in virtual simulation environments to operate their prostheses before receiving them. Further, MSMS facilitates development of interactive virtual reality applications for training, rehabilitation, and treatment of patients suffering from movement disorders.
在为上肢截肢者设计的日益复杂的假肢中，更多的机械自由度与各种神经指令相结合，以产生多功能的类人运动。开发、测试和装配这种神经假肢系统，以及训练患者有效控制它们，是复杂的过程，无法通过临时和试错方法高效或安全地完成。我们开发了一种名为MSMS的软件工具，使研究人员和工程师能够在这些神经假肢制造之前模拟其运动并评估其性能，并在虚拟模拟环境中训练患者在接收假肢之前操作它们。此外，MSMS有助于开发用于训练、康复和治疗患有运动障碍患者的交互式虚拟现实应用程序。
