Otto Bock Healthcare Gmbh

Ottobock Se & Co. Kgaaß

Georg-august-universitat Gottingen Stiftung Offentlichen Rechts

Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas

Georg-august-universitat Gottingen Stiftung Offentlichen Rechts, Universitatsmedizin

Georg-august-universität Göttingen

Dario Farina

Bernhard Graimann

Dejan Popovic

Marko Markovic

Strahinja Dosen

Sebastian Amsüss

Eduardo Rocon De Lima

Jose Luis Pons Rovira

Sebastian Amsuss

A method of operating a multi-functional limb movement auxiliary device comprising a plurality of actuators configured to move, upon activation, limb movement auxiliary device members in at least two independent degrees of freedom, a bio-signal sensing unit that is configured to acquire bio-signals indicative of motor activity, a control unit configured to receive and evaluate the acquired bio-signals, the method comprising steps of

Powered, multi-functional limb movement auxiliary device, particularly prosthesis and movement-assisting orthosis, with combined estimation regimes

The invention refers to the area of control of a limb device in the form of an artificial limb for a human or a robot limb. In particular, the invention is related to a control unit for electrically controlling an electrically controllable limb device, the limb device comprising a plurality of actuators, the control unit comprising a first interface for connecting the control unit to the limb device, the control unit comprising a second interface for connecting the control unit to a data gathering device comprising one or more sensing devices, the control unit comprising a processing unit which is arranged for controlling the limb device at least based on data gathered by the data gathering device, wherein the control unit is arranged for outputting one single control action step to the actuators of the limb device calculated by the processing unit based on a first data or data combination received from the data gathering device, and the control unit is arranged for outputting a plurality of control action steps to the actuators of the limb device calculated by the processing unit based on a second data or data combination received from the data gathering device, the second data or data combination being different from the first data or data combination, the plurality of control action steps inducing a more complex automatic movement of the limb device that the one single control action step. The invention further refers to a system comprising such a control unit, a method for controlling an electrically controllable limb device and a computer program.

Control of limb device

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Göttingen, Germany

Dario Farina