ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: BIONIC HAND CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

Amputations of lower or upper limbs are recurrent around the world and have affected thousands of people for several years. People with such disabilities inevitably become dependent on other people. Making them, most of the time, people incapable of contributing to the labor market, retiring them in conditions that are subappropriate for their level of education. Helping people who have difficulties in performing small tasks to become independent, or even to include them again in the job market and in society are motivations for writing this work.  In recent decades, an innovative and promising new technology has emerged to give hope to these people called Assistive Technology. This work seeks to study human morphology, analog and digital data and converters through the use of the Myo ArmBand bracelet. It also seeks to introduce concepts of microcontrollers, programming languages with the use of the free development platform Arduino Uno. A 3-finger bionic arm model designed to be able to pick up and recognize the electrical signals of a normally functioning arm, and to reproduce such movements as reliably as possible on the bionic arm. We intend to contribute to future applications in people who have a disability or limb amputation.