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Quantitative Analysis of EMG Amplitude Estimator for Surface EMG Signal Recorded during Isometric Constant Voluntary Contraction

등척성 일정 자의 수축 시에 기록한 표면근전도 신호에 대한 근전도 진폭 추정기의 정량적 분석

  • Lee, Jin (Dept. of Control & Instrumentation Engineering, Kangwon National Univ.)
  • Received : 2017.01.25
  • Accepted : 2017.04.25
  • Published : 2017.05.01
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Abstract

The EMG amplitude estimator, which has been investigated as an indicator of muscle force, is utilized as the control input to artificial prosthetic limbs. This paper describes an application of the optimal EMG amplitude estimator to the surface EMG signals recorded during constant isometric %MVC (maximum voluntary contraction) for 30 seconds and reports on assessing performance of the amplitude estimator from the application. Surface EMG signals, a total of 198 signals, were recorded from biceps brachii muscle over the range of 20-80%MVC isometric contraction. To examine the estimator performance, a SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) was computed from each amplitude estimate. The results of the study indicate that ARV(average rectified value) and RMS(root mean square) amplitude estimation with forth order whitening filter and 250[ms] moving average window length are optimal and showed the mean SNR improvement of about 50%, 40% and 20% for each 20%MVC, 50%MVC and 80%MVC surface EMG signals, respectively.

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