A hybrid approach for the actuation of upper limb prostheses based on computer vision

When a prosthesis that has a complicated process of selecting grip modes is presented to an amputee, he tends to give up using the device. Nowadays, most of the commercial interfaces for prosthetic hands are based on electromyography (EMG), and they are difficult to control due to the complexity of the activation methods. The multimodal approaches proposed in the literature to succeed in dealing with this problem have either limited the user to...