Researchers Seek to Control Prosthetic Legs with Neural Signals
From: Medical Design Technology - 09/23/2013
By: Matt Shipman

But for people using prosthetic legs, there is no automatic link between
their bodies and the prosthetics that they need to negotiate the new
surroundings.

Researchers from NC State and the University of Houston (UH) are hoping to
change that with a new four-year, $1.2 million collaborative project funded
by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

"Our goal is to improve mobility for people using prosthetics, lay the
groundwork for a new generation of prosthetic devices and improve our
understanding of how brain signals and neuromuscular signals are
coordinated," says Helen Huang, principle investigator (PI) of the NSF grant
and an associate professor of biomedical engineering at NC State and UNC.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/09/researchers-seek-control-prosthetic-legs-neural-signals

Links:
Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory
https://sites.google.com/site/nrelhuang/

Helen Huang
http://www.bme.ncsu.edu/index.php/directory/userprofile/hhuang11

Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal
http://www.ee.uh.edu/faculty/contreras-vidal