A stimulus frequency-controlled muscle model for FES simulator

Author

Watanabe, Takashi ; Ohba, Shigeo ; Futami, Ryoko ; Hoshimiya, N. ; Handa, Yasunobu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

551

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to construct “FES simulator” which is a simulation system of restoring paralyzed motor functions with FES. The simulator enables to modify stimulation data through the estimation of motion by the data before applying the stimulation to a patient. In this paper, a practical model of electrically stimulated muscle was studied for FES simulator. Stimulus frequency-force characteristics obtained in our past work were used for describing the model with tractable parameters and for controlling the model by stimulus frequency with amplitude and/or width of a pulse. The description was useful to represent different properties between electrically stimulated fast and slow type muscles

Keywords

biocontrol; electromyography; medical computing; motion estimation; patient treatment; physiological models; step response; EMG signals; electrically stimulated muscle; fast type muscles; functional electrical stimulation simulator; motion estimation; restoring paralyzed motor functions; slow type muscles; stimulus frequency-controlled muscle model; stimulus frequency-force characteristics; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Electromyography; Frequency dependence; Motion estimation; Muscles; Production; Recruitment; Space vector pulse width modulation; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.651859

Filename

651859