Design and Control of a Prosthetic Knee for Transfemoral Amputation
DS 73-2 Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Design Creativity Volume 2
Year: 2012
Editor: Duffy, A.; Nagai, Y.; Taura, T.
Author: Taga, Ö.; Yaman, K.; Ye, K.K.
Section: Design Creativity Methods and Integration
Page(s): 393-396
Abstract
In this study, transfemoral amputations and prosthetic knees evolved for transfemoral amputations are investigated and the electronic control unit of prosthetic knees is designed. The first stages of this work contain information about human walking in medical meaning and bipedal walking. Then, definition of transfemoral amputations, leg biomechanics when walking and phases of walking is discussed. Then the importance of creativity for designing human body is mentioned. After that, prosthetic knee design for transfemoral amputations is mentioned and prosthetic knees developed by worldwide companies are investigated and discussed in details. At the last stage, electronic control unit is designed and produced for prosthesis used by above knee amputees‘.
Keywords: transfemoral amputation, prosthetic knee, bipedal walking, electronic control of prosthetic knee