Fusion of Hard and Soft Control Strategies For a Smart Prosthetic/Robotic Hand

There are now over 20 million people in the world with missing limbs resulting from combat and non-combat operations and by 2050 there will be 50 million amputees all over the world. The availability of artificial limbs will help these people to lead a better normal life. The overall goal of the research on Prosthetic Hand Technology is to develop a smart prosthetic hand using intelligent strategies for electromyographic (EMG) signal extraction, analysis, identification, kinematic synthesis, and embedded hierarchical real-time systems and control by fusion of soft computing and hard computing techniques. The fusion of soft and hard control synergetic strategy alleviates the present problems associated with prosthetic devices. The presentation is based on Professor Naidu’s recent (2016-August-12) TED Talk (http://www.ted.com) on 3-D Printed Prosthetic Hand for the World
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXyy5XN2oY0) and his new research book published in October 2017 by the IEEE Press - Wiley (Series on Systems Science and Engineering) titled, “Fusion of Hard and Soft Control Strategies for a Robotic Hand”.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119273595,subjectCd-EE30.html