Data Collection and Model Development for Prosthetic Fitting using a Robotic Gait Simulator

ProsFit is a medical device manufacturing company that supports prosthetic clinic owners to radically improve productivity and user outcomes. Through innovation, ProsFit strives to provide limb wearers a choice of affordable, reliable and desirable prosthetic products and services. ProsFit has developed and is commercializing the solutions to provide improved mobility and quality of life to millions of amputees, at scale, and has attained significant professional usage (>700 amputees fitted worldwide). The proposed project will conduct collaborative research with the Centre for Intelligent Manufacturing (CIM) at Sheridan College with the aim to gather data for enhancing the comfort of prosthetic users with lower-limb amputations. The challenge is that a large dataset is required to improve provision services and outcomes. Through CIM, the project utilizes a 6-axis robot set-up developed at CIM that can mimic human movement patterns, allowing for thorough testing of how changes in variables affect force distribution and other data through our Robotic Gait Simulator (RGS). Long-term engagement between ProsFit and CIM is planned to develop this technology, and the proposed project will establish data collection capabilities on the robotic gait simulator, engage in data collection, and begin to build the model for prosthetic fitting with best outcomes.

Faculty Supervisor:

Nadim Arafa;Carolyn Moorlag;Joaquin Moran;Ethan Shen

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Partner:

ProsFit Care Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

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