The Composites Manufacturing Technology Center (CMTC) has issued an open call for informational papers for advances in the field of prosthetics and orthotics. The call names a few areas of specific interest, including composites materials, however, all areas will be considered. The deadline for submissions is noon on Friday, August 24.
Specifically, the information being sought includes:
- Ideas and suggestions for more comfortable and durable sockets.
- Systems that enable the ability to provide functionally graded structural properties during socket fabrication.
- Computational models that can determine the dynamic load transfer path between the internal skeletal structure and exterior prosthetic systems.
- Sensors to enable intelligent socket design, as well as feedback from the prosthetic system.
- Concepts for new actuators, which are low power, lightweight, and low noise.
- Ideas and suggestions that enable good, natural bi-directional information exchange.
CMTC said that it is seeking the widest possible distribution for this call, so that all worthwhile ideas may be considered.
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