Towards Tendon-Actuated Prostheses with Integrated Haptic Feedback (Talk)
Individuals with limb loss often choose prosthetic devices to complete activities of daily living (ADLs) as they can provide enhanced dexterity and customizable utility. Despite these benefits, high abandonment rates persist due to uncomfortable, cumbersome, and unreliable designs. Despite restoring motor function, dexterous sensorimotor control remains severely impaired due to the absence of haptic feedback. This presentation details the design and evaluation of tendon-actuated mock prostheses with integrated state-based haptic feedback and their anthropomorphic tendon-actuated end effectors.
Biography: Lorena Velásquez is a fourth year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. She is a native New Mexican, and earned her B.S. in mechanical engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. She now works with Dr. Jeremy Brown in the Haptics and Medical Robotics (HAMR) laboratory focusing on tendon-actuated upper limb prosthetic devices. Her work investigates the design, manufacturing, and control of tendon-actuated prostheses and assess the efficacy of haptic feedback integration within them.
Details
- 05 September 2024 • 13:15 - 14:00
- Hybrid - Webex plus in-person attendance in Oxygen (5N18)
- Haptic Intelligence
