Identification of constant-posture EMG-torque relationship about the elbow using nonlinear dynamic models

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 205-212

  Clancy, Edward A ^a,b   Liu, Lukai ^a   Liu, Pu ^a   Moyer, Daniel V Zandt ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Genapsys Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; biomedical signal processing; electromyography; EMG amplitude estimation; EMG signal processing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EMG AMPLITUDE; EMG SIGNAL; FOUR-CHANNEL; MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE-CHANNEL; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC MODELS; NONLINEAR PARAMETRIC MODEL; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; PSEUDO-INVERSE METHOD; PSEUDO-INVERSES; RIDGE REGRESSION; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; TORQUE ESTIMATION; TRAINING SETS;

DYNAMIC MODELS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MODEL STRUCTURES; MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TORQUE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POSTURE; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555218307     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2170423     Document Type: Article

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