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12thIFToMM World Congress, Besançon (France), June18-21, 2007 Mechanical Design, Control Choices and first Return of Use of a Prosthetic Arm G. Thomann* V. Artigues† Sols, Solids, Structures Laboratory Tech.Innovation INP Grenoble, France Evry, France Abstract—In the world of upper limb prostheses, few Currently, three kinds of prostheses are proposed on the companies dominate the majority of the market. They propose market, we will detail them in the following section: different kinds of hand, wrist and elbow prostheses but their • aesthetics prosthesis, control is often difficult to understand by the patients. * • mechanical prosthesis, We have decided to develop new myoelectric prosthetic arm (elbow, wrist and hand) by axing our development on the use of • myoelectric prosthesis. new technologies and facility of use for the patient. In this paper, we are explaining in details the different kinds of A. Aesthetics Prostheses prostheses currently proposed to the amputees, their advantages Their aim is only aesthetics, and this type of prosthesis is and their drawbacks, the descriptions of the patients needs and generally used by patients. In the majority of the cases, the the possible improvements of the product. We will develop the designing choices of our prosthesis and the movements it can pros