Design and Development of EMG Controlled Prosthetics Limb

AbstractArm amputees are people who have lost their upper limb due to accident, trauma or any disease affecting the limbs. Such people cannot perform functions which require using the hand, not even routine activities in day-to-day life such as holding the objects, moving them, eating and all the like functions. Broadly speaking, these people are not self-sufficient, but they do have an opening to look forward to. The muscles in the remaining part of the arm function in a normal way, enabling the electromyogram (EMG) signals from them to be used in limb replacement techniques. One such solution would be a Myoelectric Prosthetic Arm, which uses the EMG signals from the patient and controls movement of the prosthetic arm. The advantage of this technique is that the signal will be acquired from the patient's body and after suitable processing it is used as a control input to drive motors which are coupled to the prosthetic arm. So, the arm can be worn by amputees and the control mechanism will be initiated by their own EMG signals