Relationship between grasping force and features of single-channel intramuscular EMG signals

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 143-150

  Kamavuako, Ernest Nlandu ^a   Farina, Dario ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^a,b   Jensen, Winnie ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

Author keywords

Grasping force; Intramuscular EMG; Proportional control; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350710015     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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