A Wireless Body Area Network architecture for a prosthetic arm

State-of-the-art prosthetics incorporate network communication for both sensing and control, offering various degrees of freedom to amputees. Existing implementations rely on wired networks, which can restrict mobility and are vulnerable to connection wear and tear. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN...

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Main Authors: Saleh, Alyaa, Negm, Fayrouz, Said, Nourhan, Sudan, Yasmin, Halawa, Hassan H., Daoud, Ramez M., Amer, Hassanein H., ElSayed, Hany, Refaat, Tarek K.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Body area networks
Brain modeling
Degrees of freedom
Delay
Elbow
interference
NCS
Networks
prosthetic arm
Prosthetics
Prototypes
real-time
Tearing
WBAN
Wear
wireless body area network
Wireless communication
Wireless sensor networks
WSAN
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Summary:State-of-the-art prosthetics incorporate network communication for both sensing and control, offering various degrees of freedom to amputees. Existing implementations rely on wired networks, which can restrict mobility and are vulnerable to connection wear and tear. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are an alternative to wired approaches; they avoid the issues of mobility and connection wear and tear. This study proposes a novel WBAN architecture for a prosthetic arm. The system requirements are based on an existing prototype designed by Johns Hopkins. The proposed architecture is simulated using OMNeT++ in the presence of interference. The delays and packet loss values are shown to be within satisfactory limits, based on a 95% confidence analysis.
ISSN:2157-023X
2157-0221
DOI:10.1109/ICUMT.2015.7382442