A wearable pervasive platform for the intelligent monitoring of muscular fatigue

Author

Pioggia, G. ; Tartarisco, G. ; Ricci, Giuseppe ; Volpi, L. ; Siciliano, G. ; De Rossi, D. ; Bonfiglio, Silvio

Author_Institution

Inst. of Clinical Physiol., Nat. Res. Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 29 2010-Dec. 1 2010

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

135

Abstract

There are currently approximately 45 million people in Europe who report a long standing health problem or disability; according to the World Health Organization data the total number of persons chronically ill are 860 million at a worldwide level. Within a person centric health management framework, the modern healthcare systems must move away from the ´health care´ to ´health management´ in order to shift from ´how to treat patients´ to ´how to keep people healthy´. Assistive and health monitoring technologies can help to automatically identify and address major deficits. In this work we describe a wearable pervasive platform able to monitor the muscular fatigue during his/her daily life. Our system monitors the performance of a subject through the evaluation of sEMG signals using a wearable device aimed to immediately recognize the onset of muscular fatigue.

Keywords

electromyography; health care; medical signal processing; ubiquitous computing; World Health Organization; assistive monitoring technology; health care systems; health monitoring technology; intelligent muscular fatigue monitoring; person centric health management framework; sEMG signals; surface electromyography; wearable pervasive platform; muscle fatigue monitoring; sEMG; wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), 2010 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8134-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISDA.2010.5687279

Filename

5687279