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Journal of Biotechnology and Phytochemistry| Volume: 2
October 25-26, 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
Joint Event
Biotechnology & Medical Microbiology
World Congress on
3
rd
International Conference on
Food Science & Technology
T
herearenowover20millionpeople intheworldwithmissing
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 TED Talk
on 3-D Printed Prosthetic Hand for the World 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”
.
Speaker Biography
Desineni Subbaram Naidu received MTech and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering
(with specialization in Control Systems Engineering), from Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Kharagpur. He taught, visited and/or conducted research at IIT; as National Research
Council (NRC) Senior Research Associate at Guidance and Control Division at NASA Langley
Research Center, Hampton, VA; Old Domain University, Norfolk, VA; as Professor, Associate
Dean and Director, School of Engineering at Idaho State University and Measurement
and Control Engineering Research Center, Pocatello, Idaho; as National Research Council
(NRC) Senior Research Associate at Center of Excellence in Advanced Flight Research at
United States (US) Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB),
Ohio; Visiting Research Professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Center
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of South Australia in Adelaide;
as Visiting Professor at the Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at East
China Normal University, Shanghai, China; as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Systems
Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China; Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China. Since August 2014, he has
been with University of Minnesota Duluth as Minnesota Power Jack Rowe Endowed Chair.
He received twice the Senior National Research Council (NRC) Associateship award from
the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and is an elected (Life) Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an elected Fellow of the World Innovation
Foundation, United Kingdom. He has over 200 journal and conference publications
including 8 books. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals including the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control andOptimal Control: Applications andMethods (Wiley).
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dsnaidu@d.umn.eduDesineni Subbaram Naidu
University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Fusion of hard and soft control strategies for a smart prosthetic/robotic hand