[mercury-users] Mercury for prosthetic limb control

[Fergus Henderson]

An interesting application of Mercury:

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From: Eduardo Costa <costa at ufu.br>
To: clean-list at cs.kun.nl
Subject: [clean-list] Alcimar-Paschoarelli's paper

Dr. Alcimar's paper on the use of functional languages on
signal processing and real time control (Functional Languages
in Signal Processing Applied to Prosthetic Limb Control) was published in
System Analysis Modelling Simulation, Vol. 42, Number 9,
09/2002, ISBN 0232-9298. By the way, Dr. Alcimar won the ASC- 2002  best
paper award for another paper related to this one (it will be
published soon, and I will let you know when it gets printed).
The SAMS paper deals with a myoelectric control
system for an  upper-limb prosthesis.  Dr. Alcimar used a
special material called shape memory alloy (SMA) to act as actuator
for the joints. SMA acts as an analogue of a biological muscle.
The signal processing programs that recognizes the features
of the myoelectric signals were written in Clean, C++, Mercury
and Prolog (Ciao and GNU).
...
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