SENSORIAL INTERFACE FOR FOREARM PROSTHESIS

摘要

The invention relates to a sensorial interface for a forearm prosthesis. According to the invention, the interface consists of a structure of 14 pressure sensors, each of them being mounted on one phalange of the forearm prosthesis, a central mini controller for the global coordination of the mobile elements of the forearm prosthesis and for the control of an action force exerted by the patient upon the objects to be manipulated using the prosthesis where, when the pressure level exerted by the prosthesis fingers upon the objects to be manipulated exceeds an initially set threshold, the mini controller stops the prosthesis servomotors, and a monitor on which the signals from the pressure sensors of each phalange are viewed, the patient viewing on the monitor the pressure level exerted upon the objects and being able to set various limit values for the manipulation of various objects.