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ArticleWearable technologies2022

Seamless and intuitive control of a powered prosthetic leg using deep neural network for transfemoral amputees.

Minjae Kim, Ann M Simon, Levi J Hargrove

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A Task-Agnostic Approach to Unified Multi-Activity Gait Phase Estimation via Bilateral Sensing.IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings] · 2025
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  4. Ambilateral Activity Recognition and Continuous Adaptation with a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis.IEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · 2025
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  5. Unified Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis Enables Walking, Stairs, Transitions, and Other Daily Ambulation Activities.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2025
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  7. Controlling Powered Prosthesis Kinematics Over Continuous Inter-Leg Transitions Between Walking and Stair Ascent/Descent.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2024
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  8. Controlling Powered Prosthesis Kinematics over Continuous Transitions Between Walk and Stair Ascent.Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Minjae KimDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2384-3815
Ann M SimonDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Levi J HargroveDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Funding

Intuitive Control of a Hybrid Prosthetic Leg During AmbulationR01HD079428 · NICHD · REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO D/B/A SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB · PI HARGROVE, LEVI JOHN · 2014 to 2022
$5.6M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD079428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Powered prosthetic legs are becoming a promising option for amputee patients. However, developing safe, robust, and intuitive control strategies for powered legs remains one of the greatest challenges. Although a variety of control strategies have been proposed, creating and fine-tuning the system parameters is time-intensive and complicated when more activities need to be restored. In this study, we developed a deep neural network (DNN) model that facilitates seamless and intuitive gait generation and transitions across five ambulation modes: level-ground walking, ascending/descending ramps, and ascending/descending stairs. The combination of latent and time sequence features generated the desired impedance parameters within the ambulation modes and allowed seamless transitions between ambulation modes. The model was applied to the open-source bionic leg and tested on unilateral transfemoral users. It achieved the overall coefficient of determination of 0.72 with the state machine-based impedance parameters in the offline testing session. In addition, users were able to perform in-laboratory ambulation modes with an overall success rate of 96% during the online testing session. The results indicate that the DNN model is a promising candidate for subject-independent and tuning-free prosthetic leg control for transfemoral amputees.

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ambulation modesan open-source bionic legdeep learningimpedance controlprosthetics

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PMID37041885
PMCPMC10085575

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