Cloud AI Coaching for Myoelectric Prosthesis Calibration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Myoelectric prosthesis users face challenges in accurately and efficiently recalibrating their devices due to degradation from muscle exhaustion, humidity, and socket shifting, requiring frequent in-person visits to specialists and dealing with inaccurate calibrations from limited data sets.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-enabled and AI-based biosignal system that aggregates user data from multiple devices to train an enhanced AI coaching model, providing real-time feedback and visual instructions for users to recalibrate their prosthetic controllers, reducing the need for specialist visits and improving calibration accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users perform calibration independently with limited data sets, then calibration process is simple and quick, but calibration accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from local calibration (single user's limited data) to cloud-based aggregated calibration (multiple users' combined data). By moving data collection and processing to the cloud dimension, the system accesss larger diverse data sets without requiring each user to collect extensive data locally, thus improving calibration accuracy while maintaining user convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud server acts as an intermediary between the user's device and the calibration process. It receives data from multiple users, aggregates and processes it to create improved calibration models, then returns calibrated parameters to individual users. This intermediary enables accurate calibration using aggregated data without requiring users to directly handle complex data collection and processing.
2Measurement precision
If users visit specialists for calibration, then calibration accuracy is improved, but time consumption and inconvenience increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to perform calibration independently through a user-friendly interface that guides them through the process. The cloud-based AI model automatically processes their data and provides calibrated parameters without requiring specialist intervention. Users receive real-time feedback and coaching messages to complete calibration accurately, eliminating the need for in-person specialist visits while maintaining calibration quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements real-time feedback mechanisms where users receive coaching messages, performance metrics, and guidance during the calibration process. The system monitors calibration progress and provides iterative feedback to help users achieve accurate calibration independently, reducing the need for repeated specialist visits and saving time.
3Reliability
If conventional calibration systems are used, then device complexity is low, but calibration reliability deteriorates due to degradation from muscle exhaustion, humidity, and socket shifting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic calibration that adapts to changing physiological conditions. The cloud-based AI model continuously learns from new data and updates calibration parameters in response to varying muscle signals, humidity levels, and socket positions. This dynamic approach maintains control reliability despite degradation factors, unlike static conventional systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary calibration and continuous monitoring before control degradation occurs. By establishing an initial accurate calibration using aggregated data and providing ongoing feedback during use, the system prepares and maintains optimal control parameters in advance, preventing reliability issues before they arise rather than reacting to degradation after it occurs.
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AI summary
Cloud-enabled and artificial intelligence (AI) based biosignal systems and methods are described for the coaching of users to enhance biosignal enabled devices based on device usage. The systems and methods are comprised of, and/or utilize, a cloud based server to aggregate biosignal data from biosignal enabled devices, train an enhanced AI based coaching model using the biosignal data, and to provide the enhanced AI based coaching model to the biosignal enabled devices. The biosignal enabled devices replace a first AI coaching model with the enhanced AI based coaching model, and input user-specific biosignal data to the enhanced AI based coaching model to output a device usage classification. Based on the device usage classification, the systems and methods initiate a coaching procedure that coaches the user how to use or configure the biosignal enabled device to implement an updated configuration for the biosignal enabled device that is optimized for the user.


