Innovative Human-Machine Interfaces for Low Cost and High Capacity Prosthetic Hand

This paper proposes building a low cost prosthetic hand with the same functionality of top-line ones that allow the selection of several grasping patterns but with innovative Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) based on hybrid Electromyography (EMG) with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), image processing, Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) or voice commands. The development of these interfaces is to analyse which combination of HMI suits the best the needs of the users. The reason is to increase the quality of life of upper limb amputees by giving them access to a product with high performance but without the high cost that makes them inaccessible for most Brazilian who needs these prosthesis. As a result, it is expected an open hardware product, easy to maintain, and personalised.