An accurate bicep muscle model with sEMG and muscle force outputs

Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 393-398

  Wheeler, Katherine Anne ^a   Kumar, Dinesh Kant ^a   Shimada, Hirokazu ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OITA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromyography (EMG); Model; Simulation; Time invariant

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; BICEPS BRACHII; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIRING FREQUENCY; FORCE LEVEL; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTIONS; MEAN VALUES; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FIBER CONDUCTION VELOCITIES; MUSCLE FIBER TYPES; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MODELS; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEARITY; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PARAMETER VALUES; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL FEATURES; SIMULATED SIGNALS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM; TIME INVARIANTS; TYPE II;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; JITTER; MUSCLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; SIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 78751491082     PISSN: 16090985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5405/jmbe.779     Document Type: Article

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