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During my internship at the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, I developed an experimental mechanism and protocol for a tactile feedback device for myoelectric upper limb prostheses. The goal of this project was to find an improved method of providing tactile feedback to people with upper limb amputation with the hope that it would improve their control of their prosthesis and reduce cognitive load. As an intermediate step to designing the feedback device, I designed a test stand to test our ability to control position, velocity, and force of a tactor head pushing into a viscoelastic material meant to immitate the properties of skin. The results of these tests would let us know if we could make a clinically viable device - something that is both small enough to be integrated into a prosthesis but also has enough control that it could produce useful feedback. 

 

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