Towards improved partial-hand prostheses: The effect of wrist kinematics on pattern-recognition-based control

Pattern-recognition-based control using surface electromyography (EMG) from the extrinsic hand muscles has shown great promise for providing control of multiple prosthetic functions. However, it is not clear how these systems will perform when the user possesses a functional wrist; an attribute unique to the population of partial-hand amputees. Fortunately, partial-hand amputees may have remaining intrinsic hand muscles, from which additional...