Title
1µm-thickness 64-channel surface electromyogram measurement sheet with 2V organic transistors for prosthetic hand control
Abstract
A surface electromyogram (EMG), which measures a voltage waveform produced by skeletal muscles on skin, is an important tool for applications detecting the human will of motion, such as for prosthetic hands and prosthetic legs. In the application to a prosthetic hand, a multipoint EMG measurement is required to precisely control the hand [1, 2]. Conventional multipoint measurements with a passive electrode array [1-3], however, have two problems: 1) Measurement over a long time period is annoying, because the EMG electrodes placed on the skin are rigid, and 2) the signal integrity of EMG is degraded, because the number of wires between the electrodes and the front-end circuits increases with increasing number of measurement points. To address these challenges, a surface EMG measurement sheet (SEMS) on which an EMG electrode array and a front-end amplifier array with 2V organic transistors are integrated on a 1μm-thick ultra-flexible film is developed to control prosthetic hands. The developed SEMS enables a comfortable long-time measurement without signal integrity degradation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487656
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical electrodes,biomedical electronics,electromyography,organic field effect transistors,prosthetics,64-channel surface electromyogram measurement sheet,EMG electrode array,SEMS,front-end amplifier array,front-end circuits,multipoint EMG measurement,organic transistors,passive electrode array,prosthetic hand control,prosthetic legs,signal integrity,size 1 mum,skeletal muscles,surface EMG measurement sheet,ultraflexible film,voltage 2 V
Biomedical engineering,Electrode array,Computer science,Voltage,Waveform,Signal integrity,Electromyography,Electronic engineering,Transistor,Electronic circuit,Electrical engineering,Amplifier
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0193-6530
978-1-4673-4515-6
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.01
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fuketa, H.1101.80
Yoshioka, K.281.45
Shinozuka, Y.371.01
Ishida, K.471.01