Software Adjusts Bionic Legs While Walking
From: Medical Design Technology - 09/28/2015

When amputees receive powered prosthetic legs, the power of the prosthetic
limbs needs to be tuned by a prosthetics expert so that a patient can move
normally - but the prosthetic often needs repeated re-tuning. Biomedical
engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have now developed software that allows
powered prosthetics to tune themselves automatically, making the devices more
functionally useful and lowering the costs associated with powered prosthetic
use.

Read the entire article and view a video (0:31) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/09/software-adjusts-bionic-legs-while-walking

Links:
New Tech Automatically ‘Tunes’ Powered Prosthetics While Walking
https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/09/huang-autotune-2015

Helen Huang
https://www.bme.unc.edu/index.php/component/comprofiler/userprofile/hhuang11

Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory
http://nrel.bme.unc.edu

Rehabilitation Engineering Core
http://rec.bme.unc.edu

Algorithm Developed That Helps Enable Powered Prosthetics to Tune Themselves
  Automatically
http://www.rehabpub.com/2015/09/algorithm-developed-helps-enable-powered-prosthetics-tune-automatically

A Cyber Expert System for Auto-Tuning Powered Prosthesis Impedance Control Parameters
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10439-015-1464-7

New Algorithm Tunes Powered Prosthetics
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/1104-mdb/news/23069