Relating agonist-antagonist electromyograms to joint torque during isometric quasi-isotonicnonfatiguing contractions

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1024-1028

  Clancy, Edward A ^a   Hogan, Neville ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; EMG to torque; Identification; Modeling and stochatic processes; Torque measurement

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; RANDOM PROCESSES; TORQUE MEASUREMENT;

MULTI CHANNEL JOINT TORQUE ESTIMATOR;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TORQUE;

EID: 0031260215     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.634654     Document Type: Article

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