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Journal of Biomedical Research | Volume 29
October 22-23, 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
International Conference on
Robo t i c s a n d A u t oma t i o n
B iomater ial s and Nanomater ial s
Joint Event
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herearenowover20millionpeople intheworldwithmissing
limbs resulting from combat and non-combat operations
andby 2050 therewill be50million amputees all over theworld.
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 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 & PhD in Electrical Engineering, from Indian
Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITK), INDIA. He taught, visited and/or conducted
research at IIT; National Research Council (NRC) Senior Research Associate at Guidance
and Control Division at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA (1985-90);
Old Domain University, Norfolk, VA, USA (1987-90); as Professor, Associate Dean and
Director, School of Engineering at Idaho State University and Measurement and Control
Engineering Research Center, Pocatello, Idaho, USA (1990-2014). Since August 2014, he
has been with University of Minnesota Duluth as Minnesota Power Jack Rowe Endowed
Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor received twice the Senior
National Research Council (NRC) Associateship award from the US National Academy
of Sciences (NAS), and is an elected (1995) (now Life) Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an elected (2003) Fellow of the World Innovation
Foundation, UK. His teaching and research interests are Electrical Engineering;
Control Systems; Optimal Control: Theory and Applications; Biomedical Sciences and
Engineering (Prosthetics and Infectious Diseases); Large Scale Systems and Singular
Perturbations and Time Scales (SPaTS): Control Theory and Applications; Guidance
and Control of Aerospace Systems: Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer for Mars mission and
UninhabitedAerialVehicles(UAVs);AdvancedControlStrategiesforHeating,Ventilation,
& Air-Conditioning (HVAC); Modeling, Sensing and Control of Gas Metal Arc Welding
(GMAW) and has over 200 journal and conference publications including 9 books.
e:
dsnaidu@d.umn.eduDesineni Subbaram Naidu
University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Fusion of hard and soft control strategies for a smart prosthetic/robotic hand
Desineni Subbaram Naidu
, Robotics & Biomaterials 2018, Volume 29
DOI: 10.4066/biomedicalresearch-C6-015