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Design of low-cost, fully passive prosthetic knee for persons with transfemoral amputation in India

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Arelekatti, Venkata Narayana Murthy
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Amos G. Winter, V.
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Abstract
An estimated 230,000 above-knee amputees are in need of prosthetic devices in India with a majority of them facing severe socio-economic constraints in their daily lives. However, only a few passive prosthetic knee devices in the market have been designed to enable normative gait and to meet the unique daily life needs of above-knee amputees in the developing world. This thesis builds upon a past study at MIT, which established optimal mechanical component coefficients in prosthetic knee function required for achieving able-bodied kinematics. A mechanism for the design of a fully passive, low-cost prosthetic knee device, which aims to facilitate able-bodied kinematics at a low metabolic cost is presented. The mechanism is implemented using an automatic early stance lock for stability, a linear spring for early stance flexionextension and a differential friction damping system for late stance and swing control. For preliminary validation of the knee mechanism two field trials were carried out on five above-knee amputees in India, which showed satisfactory performance of the early stance lock and enabled smooth stance to swing transition by timely initiation of late stance flexion.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-54).
 
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2015
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100156
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mechanical Engineering.

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