Patent ID: 11967247
Assignee: REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for prosthetic training, comprising:
an arm band for training a control module associated with a prosthetic limb including:
a plurality of housing elements defining a housing,
one or more electromyography (EMG) sensors provided in at least one of the plurality of housing elements, and
one or more kinematic sensors;

one or more processing units in operable communication with the one or more EMG sensors of the arm band and the control module of the prosthetic limb, the one or more processing units configured to:
receive EMG data of a residual limb from the one or more EMG sensors, predict an intended gesture of a user wearing the arm band from the EMG data, and generate a gesture instruction in response to a user performing a training gesture; and

a virtual reality (VR) system configured for training the control module of the prosthetic limb using the arm band, comprising:
a visual display,
one or more detectors for motion tracking, configured to:
receive data from the one or more kinematic sensors to determine a position or orientation of the arm band relative to the VR system, and

a VR control module in operative communication with the one or more processing units and configured to:
prompt to the user wearing the arm band to perform the training gesture;
receive the gesture instruction, and
alter the visual display based on the gesture instruction to display a virtual representation of the intended gesture,

wherein engagement with the VR system by the user wearing the arm band trains the control module to identify the intended gesture of the user based on the EMG data and the training gesture.