SEMG-based joint force control for an upper-limb power-assist exoskeleton robot

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1043-1050

  Li, Zhijun ^a   Wang, Baocheng ^b   Sun, Fuchun ^c   Yang, Chenguang ^d   Xie, Qing ^b   Zhang, Weidong ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exoskeleton; force estimation; linear discriminant analysis (LDA); Surface electromyogram (sEMG)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORCE CONTROL; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTS;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; EXOSKELETON ROBOTS; FORCE ESTIMATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MOTION INTENTION; RECOGNITION PROCESS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM;

EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS);

ADULT; ARM; DEVICES; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STROKE; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900536650     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2286455     Document Type: Article

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