Conceptual Method of Temperature Sensation in Bionic Hand by Extraordinary Perceptual Phenomenon

• 作者: Saeed Bahrami Moqadam Ahamd Saleh Asheghabadi Farzaneh Norouzi Hamed Jafarzadeh Ali Khosroabadi Afshin Alagheband Ghazal Bangash Negar Morovatdar Jing Xu
• 来源期刊: 仿生工程学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（6）
• 所属期刊栏目: RESEARCH ARTICLES
• 页码范围: 1344-1357
• 页数: 14页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Lack of temperature sensation of myoelectric prosthetic hand limits the daily activities of amputees.To this end,a non-invasive temperature sensation method is proposed to train amputees to sense temperature with psychophysical sensory substitution.In this study,22 healthy participants took part besides 5 amputee participants.The duration time of the study was 31 days with five test steps according to the Leitner technique.An adjustable temperature mug and a Peltier were used to change the temperature of the water/phantom digits to induce temperature to participants.Also,to isolate the surround-ings and show colors,a Virtual Reality(VR)glass was employed.The statistical results conducted are based on the response of participants with questionnaire method.Using Chi-square tests,it is concluded that participants answer the experiment significantly correctly using the Leitner technique(P value＜0.05).Also,by applying the"Repeated Measures ANOVA",it is noticed that the time of numbness felt by participants had significant(P value＜0.001)difference.Participants could remember lowest and highest temperatures significantly better than other temperatures(P value＜0.001);furthermore,the well-trained amputee participant practically using the prosthesis with 72.58％could identify object's temperature with only once time experimenting the color temperature.