Feasibility and Design of a Low-Cost Prosthetic Knee Joint Using a Compliant Member for Stance-Phase Control
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the feasibility and design of a low-cost prosthetic knee joint that uses a compliant member for stance-phase control. A mechanical locking mechanism was used in conjunction with a compliant control axis to achieve automatic stance-phase locking. The concept was developed with the aid of computer-aided engineering software and was validated through the fabrication and testing of a simplified prototype made of an injection moldable polymer. A prosthetic knee joint was then designed, incorporating the compliant member concept. After modeling, fabrication, and laboratory testing, a pilot study was conducted in a clinical setting. A simple gait analysis showed asymmetric gait patterns that demonstrated the need for improved swing-phase control and damping, while qualitative feedback indicated the desire to reduce the noise produced by the knee. The knee provided the automatic stance-phase control for which it was designed and shows significant potential to evolve into a highly functioning, low-cost knee.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".