Title
Muscle force estimation method with surface EMG for a lower extremities rehabilitation device
Abstract
This paper presents a new wearable lower extremities assistive robotic device that aims at providing assistive torque for stroke patients during rehabilitation process. The device specifically provides the assistive torque by detecting the user's intention using surface electromyography (EMG) signals with the force/torque estimation method based on continuous wavelet transform (CWT). The general hardware design of the current rehabilitation prototype was developed. Experiments were conducted to collect hamstring and quadriceps muscles EMG signals from 10 healthy subjects. Data analysis was carried out to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed human force/torque estimation algorithm. The force/torque estimation results show high implementation feasibility for the assistive device. Online tests were also carried out with the assistive device using the EMG signal to command motors. The output estimation force, hip and knee joint positions were obtained from the real-time implementation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICORR.2013.6650419
ICORR
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical electronics,electromyography,force measurement,medical signal detection,torque measurement,wavelet transforms,cwt,emg signals,assistive torque,continuous wavelet transform,force estimation method,hamstring muscles,quadriceps muscles,rehabilitation process,stroke patients,surface electromyography signals,torque estimation method,wearable lower extremities assistive robotic device,robotic assistive device,continuous wavelet transform (cwt),electromyography (emg),lower extremities rehabilitation,muscle force estimation,estimation,force
Muscle force,Rehabilitation,Torque,Simulation,Wearable computer,Electromyography,Continuous wavelet transform,Hamstring,Engineering,Wavelet transform
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7898
978-1-4673-6022-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fengjun Bai130.85
Chee-Meng Chew237540.58
jinfu li321.07
Bingquan Shen471.86
tomasz marek lubecki500.34