Development of Test Bench for Transfemoral Prosthesis

Abstract

Rapid prototyping and standardizing play a crucial part in manufacturing prosthesis and meet emerging demand of modern time. Testing procedures involving human subjects involves safety and legal complications that tends to introduce time delays reducing the productivity and quality of prosthesis. This thesis involves development of 2 DOF transfemoral prosthesis testing platform for cyclic testing considering hip vertical motion and thigh horizontal motion. The system is simulated to evaluate the torque required for the hip motions and fabricated to replicate human hip vertical motion and thigh rotational motion. Furthermore, Moreover, cyclic durability testing using FEM technique is performed on foot prosthesis for future fabrication and testing on prosthesis test bench.