I am back this week with some ground breaking news! So my project has culminated itself in a very different way now. What I was going to do was get EMG Data from my hand, and analyze the forces in play with simulations. Well there is good news and bad news...
So for my project, I was planing on using EMG's and getting Force data from the simulations, but the social aspect and the analysis of social attitudes seen in various papers are interesting me. With the simulations, it would have taken far too much time, and that would mean I could not get enought data. So that is not going to work out. That was the bad news.
Now for the good news! So my new methodology is more straight forward than what I was planning to do. For the new experiment, I will be analyzing the same motor function of grasping, but the slight difference comes in the way it will be observed. I will be using the prosthetic and controlling it with my EMG's. The same EMG's I would put into moving my hand, I would use to move the prosthetic, and that would be done using an EMG sensor and a separate program to translate the EMG's to the prosthetic. I hope that makes sense so far.
Now with three different objects, I would use my EMG's to run the prosthetic and my hand, and grasp the object. With a primary recording of my muscle movement, with a myograph of when I clench my fist, and grasp the objects, I would see if the hand can replicate the movement using the same EMG's.
So this week was essentially my first main trial and error, and it showed me that what I was doing was on a scale unlike the nature of this project. I wanted to do a lot in an amount of time, that I cannot really do. Other than those important developments, I will continue to look through papers, and I will be doing a mid-week update for week 7 about the paper I am currently reading through.
I hope all of that makes sense. I will answer any questions in detail in the comments below and in my mid-week update. Thank you!
