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The implant-based control of active hand prostheses poses many problems to the developer. For instance, to achieve reliable prosthetic control, we must collect as much electromyographic (EMG) data as possible from the body with the minimum use of energy. To better use the limited link capacity between implant and base-station and to improve the energy requirements, we evaluated several compression algorithms and implemented them in a MSP430F6638-environment (further referred to as MSP). Based on former investigations of real-time compression of biosignals, further improvements of algorithm-efficiency were made. The algorithm was successfully migrated to a DSP-environment. The migration opens the door for more complex compression methods, especially for implant applications where high-data-rate transmission is required in real-time.