The document discusses the development of a brain-signal actuated artificial hand for disabled persons in India. Over 21 million Indians have some form of disability, including 61 million with limited mobility. The goal of the project is to create an affordable prosthetic hand that is controlled via brain signals captured from an EEG headset. The system would involve capturing brain signals, processing them to identify desired hand movements, and using that information to control actuators in the artificial hand. This would allow disabled individuals to control a prosthetic hand through thought, providing greater independence.
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A writeup summing about the working of the prototype
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Brain Signals Actuated Artificial Hand for Disabled
The document discusses the development of a brain-signal actuated artificial hand for disabled persons in India. Over 21 million Indians have some form of disability, including 61 million with limited mobility. The goal of the project is to create an affordable prosthetic hand that is controlled via brain signals captured from an EEG headset. The system would involve capturing brain signals, processing them to identify desired hand movements, and using that information to control actuators in the artificial hand. This would allow disabled individuals to control a prosthetic hand through thought, providing greater independence.
The document discusses the development of a brain-signal actuated artificial hand for disabled persons in India. Over 21 million Indians have some form of disability, including 61 million with limited mobility. The goal of the project is to create an affordable prosthetic hand that is controlled via brain signals captured from an EEG headset. The system would involve capturing brain signals, processing them to identify desired hand movements, and using that information to control actuators in the artificial hand. This would allow disabled individuals to control a prosthetic hand through thought, providing greater independence.
HAND FOR THE DISABLED The Census 2011 has revealed that over 21 million people in India are suffering from one or the other kind of disability. This is equivalent to 2.1% of the total population. Among the handicapped population, the persons corresponding to immobility totals to 61, 05,477 who are unable to execute their daily chores and have to depend on others.
Fig. 1: Split Up Of Differently Able Persons In India The main objective of the proposed project is to develop a prosthetic model which utilises the brain signals to activate the artificial hand which is connected with the human body. The prosthesis is an artificial device to replace the impaired part of the body. This needs the brain signal capturing, processing them based on the requirement and to command the prosthetic hand to perform the desired activity. This model exists in abroad already but it is so expensive that it cant be afforded by common people. So, to make it feasible for the commoners to utilise prosthetic hand this
Fig. 2: Block Diagram Of The Proposed Project 2
solution is proposed. The basic units of the project are brain signal capturing unit, the signal processing unit, the controller unit and actuator and hand unit. The brain signal capturing unit acquires the brain signals using EEG head-set, filters only the thought signals which are needed to be processed using band pass filters. Once filtered out, the signals are fed into signal processing unit where the signals are processed to remove the noises present and the signal strength will be improved so as to minimize the mismatch with the pre-recorded signals, stored in the memory corresponding to the action to be performed by the artificial hand. Once, the signal matching is performed the controller unit initiates the respective program related to the movement of the hand. This program sends commands to the artificial hand elements to constitute the motion. The actuator and hand unit have number of actuators to perform the actions. The motors are embedded at different points, like fingers and elbow and shoulder, constitute to the hand movement. SNAPSHOTS OF EEG CAPTURING PROCESS Encl: Classifier values obtained for the different actions required for the project Fig. 3: EPOC EEG Capturing Head Set 3