TY - GEN
T1 - Designing an adaptive prosthetic socket controller using h-infinity loop shaping synthesis
AU - Nguyen, Harrison
AU - Shallal, Christopher
AU - Thakor, Nitish
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Amputees often find wearing a prosthetic limb for a long period of time uncomfortable. Prosthetic sockets that adjust the socket's fit automatically, or adaptive sockets, would encourage amputees to wear their prosthesis more frequently. In this work, we simulate the control system design of a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) adaptive socket using principles of optimal control and robust control. A data-driven model of the socket-limb interface is first obtained by applying regression to open-loop recordings of the socket interacting with the limb during a simulated grasping task. A MIMO controller is then designed to maintain a desired uniform socket fit. An H-{\infty} controller, obtained from loop shaping synthesis using the Glover-McFarlane method, is shown to perform comparably to a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller while maintaining robustness to uncertainties in the socket-limb interface model. This work then outlines a potential procedure on how to develop the control system for a real adaptive prosthetic socket with multiple sensors and actuators.
AB - Amputees often find wearing a prosthetic limb for a long period of time uncomfortable. Prosthetic sockets that adjust the socket's fit automatically, or adaptive sockets, would encourage amputees to wear their prosthesis more frequently. In this work, we simulate the control system design of a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) adaptive socket using principles of optimal control and robust control. A data-driven model of the socket-limb interface is first obtained by applying regression to open-loop recordings of the socket interacting with the limb during a simulated grasping task. A MIMO controller is then designed to maintain a desired uniform socket fit. An H-{\infty} controller, obtained from loop shaping synthesis using the Glover-McFarlane method, is shown to perform comparably to a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller while maintaining robustness to uncertainties in the socket-limb interface model. This work then outlines a potential procedure on how to develop the control system for a real adaptive prosthetic socket with multiple sensors and actuators.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2019.8779413
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2019.8779413
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31374803
AN - SCOPUS:85071182355
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
SP - 1266
EP - 1271
BT - 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2019
Y2 - 24 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -