A novel approach for simulation, measurement and representation of surface EMG (sEMG) signals

Author

Mahabalagiri, Anvith Katte ; Ahmed, Khadeer ; Schlereth, Fred

Author_Institution

Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

6-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

480

Abstract

In this paper, we describe new methods for the simulation, measurement and representation of sEMG signals. With regard to simulation, we choose a 2-D state space model and suggest a 3-D model which can account for in- homogeneities, nonlinearities and memory in the medium and which can be hardware accelerated through FPGA. With regard to measurement we use surface electrodes with a new amplifier circuit topology, which mitigates the effects of pickup and artifacts. With regard to representation, we describe a method for using wavelets which shows promise for isolating signals of interest.

Keywords

amplifiers; biomedical electrodes; electromyography; field programmable gate arrays; inhomogeneous media; medical signal processing; network topology; signal representation; 2D state space model; 3D model; FPGA; amplifier circuit topology; hardware acceleration; medium inhomogeneities; medium nonlinearities; pickup effect mitigation; sEMG signal measurement; sEMG signal simulation; signal isolation; surface EMG signal representation; surface electrodes; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Electromyography; Integrated circuit modeling; Muscles; Skin; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR), 2011 Conference Record of the Forty Fifth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0321-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2011.6190045

Filename

6190045