J-Doc

The original goal of this project was to create a functional and cost-effective replacement of current prosthesis sensors for upper-limb powered prosthesis. In the end, the sensor’s performance was not appropriate for use in prostheses, but still presented an interesting alternative for the measurement of physiological vibrations.

Products

• Wearable Vibration Sensor DIY Guide: Electronic Board
• Wearable Vibration Sensor DIY Guide: Silicone Embedding

Media

video

publications

1. Silva J., Heim W., and Chau T., “A Self-Contained, Mechanomyography-Driven Externally Powered Prosthesis,” Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Vol. 86, No. 10, pp. 2066–2070, October 2005.
2. Silva J., and Chau T., “A Mathematical Model for Source Separation of MMG Signals Recorded with a Coupled Microphone-Accelerometer Sensor Pair,” Transactions in Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1493–1501, September 2005.
3. Silva J., and Chau T., “Coupled Microphone-Accelerometer Sensor Pair for Dynamic Noise Reduction in MMG Signal Recording,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 21, pp. 1496–1498, October 2003.
4. Silva J., Chau T., Naumann S., and Heim W., “Systematic Characterization of Silicon-Embedded Accelerometers for Mechanomyography,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 290–295, May 2003.
5. Silva J., Heim W., and Chau T., “MMG-Based Classification of Muscle Activity for Prosthesis Control,” 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, Vol. 1, pp. 968–971, September 2004.
6. Grossman A., Silva J., and Chau T., “Mapping of Multiple Mechanomyographic Signals to Hand Kinematics,” in Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 493–496, May 2004.
7. Silva J., Chau T., and Goldenberg A., “MMG-Based Multisensor Data Fusion for Prosthesis Control,” in Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun QR, Mexico, Vol. 3, pp. 2909–2912, September 2003.
8. Silva J., Chau T., Naumann S., Heim W., and Goldenberg A. “Optimization of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Silicon-Embedded Microphones for MMG Signal Recording,” in Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montreal QB, Canada, Vol. 3, pp. 1493–1496, May 2003.
9. Silva J., Chau T., and Naumann S., “Quantifying the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Silicon-Embedded Sensors for Mechanomyography,” in Proceedings of the 27th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Ottawa ON, Canada, November 2002.