Control-System Hardware for an Active Upper-Limb Prosthesis

Context

In 2019 a start-up developing an active upper-limb prosthesis, a powered robotic arm for people with upper-limb loss, engaged Ambimat on the electronics of the arm’s control system.

Requirement

  • A control system for a robotic arm to be used by an upper-limb amputee
  • Keep the cost of the prosthesis down

Ambimat’s work

Ambimat designed and developed the hardware of the prosthesis’s control system.

Validation

The device passed device-level pre-certification testing at the first attempt. This was testing of the customer’s device; it is not a certification held by Ambimat.

Stages this engagement covered

  • Requirement: a control system for an active upper-limb prosthesis, with cost reduction in mind
  • Engineering: design and development of the control-system hardware
  • Validation: device-level pre-certification testing, passed at the first attempt

This case is not presented as evidence of a clinical pilot, certification, production or volume manufacturing of the device.

Related Ambimat capability

Engagements of this kind are part of Ambimat’s turnkey design and development service, and the board-level work is described under electronics hardware design. More AmbiIoT application work is listed under robotics.

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