U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Development of Upper-Limb Myoelectric Prosthesis

9812802 Farag描述：该奖项旨在表彰肯塔基州路易斯维尔大学工程学院副教授Aly Farag博士和埃及开罗大学系统与生物医学工程系副教授Ahmed El-Bialy博士领导的团队对合作项目的支持。 双方计划开发一种肘下肌电假肢，这种假肢将简单而廉价，适合发展中国家的市场。 研究将包括调查和估计埃及现有市场和现有进口设备的单位成本，研究现有设备，作为单独重新设计和实施其每个组件的基础，研究和设计软件，以模拟各种操作参数，如抓握和手腕旋转，最后在实际情况下测试新设备和软件。适用范围：该奖项将允许埃及和美国科学家之间的合作，他们具有重要的互补技术背景和专业知识，以执行拟议的项目。 Farag博士在计算机视觉和仿真中的3D模型构建方面经验丰富。 El-Bialy博士和他的团队在生物医学和生物力学系统的多个领域都有丰富的经验。 他们还熟悉发展中国家用户的情况，能够提供最终产品实地测试所需的资源。 该项目可以提供新的设计和软件，利用发展中国家现有的资源，有效地大大改善截肢者的生活。这一提议符合INT的目标，即在有利于双方的领域增加美国与外国的合作。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

9812802FaragDescription: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Dr. Aly Farag, Associate Professor School of Engineering at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and a team headed by Dr. Ahmed El-Bialy, Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt. The two sides plan to develop a below-elbow myoelectric prosthesis that will be simple and inexpensive to suit the markets in developing countries. Studies will cover surveys and estimates of the existing market and unit costs in Egypt for the currently available and imported devices, study of the available devices to use as a base to individually redesign and implement each of its components, study and design of software to simulate the various parameters of operations such as gripping and wrist rotation, and finally testing the new devices and software in actual cases. Scope: This award will allow collaboration between Egyptian and US scientists who have significant complementary technical background and expertise to carry out the proposed project. Dr. Farag is experienced in 3-D model building in computer vision and in simulation. Dr. El-Bialy and his team are well experienced in several areas of biomedical and biomechanical systems. They are also familiar with the conditions of users in developing world countries and able to provide the resources needed for the field testing of the final products. The project may provide new designs and the software that can be used effectively to greatly improve the lives of amputees with the resources available in developing countries. This proposal meets the INT objective of increasing US-foreign collaboration in areas that benefit both sides. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.