This study is aimed at assessing muscle fatigue during a static contraction using multifractal analysis and found that the surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals characterized multifractality during a static contrac...This study is aimed at assessing muscle fatigue during a static contraction using multifractal analysis and found that the surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals characterized multifractality during a static contraction. By applying the method of direct determination of the f(α) singularity spectrum, the area of the multifractal spectrum of the SEMG signals was computed. The results showed that the spectrum area significantly increased during muscle fatigue. Therefore the area could be used as an assessor of muscle fatigue. Compared with the median frequency (MDF)―the most popular indicator of muscle fatigue, the spectrum area presented here showed higher sensitivity during a static contraction. So the singularity spectrum area is considered to be a more effective indicator than the MDF for estimating muscle fatigue.展开更多
The EMG signal is a present field of research which is a driving force in sources of rehabilitating robots. The FFT with Kaiser Window was used in this paper to analyze the spectral characteristics of the EMG signal a...The EMG signal is a present field of research which is a driving force in sources of rehabilitating robots. The FFT with Kaiser Window was used in this paper to analyze the spectral characteristics of the EMG signal according to the characteristic of time changing and nonlinearity for the EMG signal and good results have been obtained. The singular value expressing the property of every EMG signal at each channel was taken out. It offered important data for the actual control of rehabilitating robots.展开更多
基金Project (No. 2005CB724303) supported by the National Basic Re-search Program (973) of China
文摘This study is aimed at assessing muscle fatigue during a static contraction using multifractal analysis and found that the surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals characterized multifractality during a static contraction. By applying the method of direct determination of the f(α) singularity spectrum, the area of the multifractal spectrum of the SEMG signals was computed. The results showed that the spectrum area significantly increased during muscle fatigue. Therefore the area could be used as an assessor of muscle fatigue. Compared with the median frequency (MDF)―the most popular indicator of muscle fatigue, the spectrum area presented here showed higher sensitivity during a static contraction. So the singularity spectrum area is considered to be a more effective indicator than the MDF for estimating muscle fatigue.
文摘The EMG signal is a present field of research which is a driving force in sources of rehabilitating robots. The FFT with Kaiser Window was used in this paper to analyze the spectral characteristics of the EMG signal according to the characteristic of time changing and nonlinearity for the EMG signal and good results have been obtained. The singular value expressing the property of every EMG signal at each channel was taken out. It offered important data for the actual control of rehabilitating robots.