Mechanomyography sensor design and multisensor fusion for upper-limb prosthesis control
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Current electromyography (EMG) sensors have not been successfully combined with more comfortable and functional silicone soft sockets in externally powered prostheses due to contact, wire breakage and daily use issues. To overcome those issues, this thesis proposes a novel control framework based on the measurement of the mechanical activity of remnant muscles (mechanomyography or MMG). This document details the technical implementation, design optimization and practical tests that lay the groundwork for the development of a new generation of MMG-driven upper-limb externally powered prosthesis. Fundamental contributions include a systematic characterization and optimization of silicone-embedded sensors for MMG signal recording, the novel design of a coupled MMG sensor pair for dynamic noise reduction and the first ever reported use of a MMG sensor array for the generation of multiple signals for prosthesis control. Tests with amputees demonstrate that MMG-driven prostheses may advance the frontier of externally powered prostheses research.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 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.
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