The Change of Spectral Energy Distribution of Surface EMG Signal During Forearm Action Process

Spectral energy distribution of surface EMG signal is often used but difficultly and effectively control artificial limb, because the spectral energy distribution changes in the process of limb actions. In this paper, the general characteristics of surface EMG signal patterns were firstly characterized by spectral energy change. 13 healthy subjects were instructed to execute forearm supination （FS） and forearm pronation （FP） with their right foreanns when their forearm muscles were ＂fatigue＂ or ＂relaxed＂. All surface EMG signals were recorded from their right forearm flexor during their right forearm actions. Two sets of surface EMG signals were segmented from every surface EMG signal appropriately at preparing stage and acting stage. Relative wavelet packet energy （symbolized by pnp and pna respectively at preparing stage and acting stage, n denotes the nth frequency band） of surface EMG signal firstly was calculated and then, the difference （Pn = Pna-Pnp） were gained. The results showed that Pn from some frequency bands can effectively characterize the general characteristics of surface EMG signal patterns. Compared with Pn in other frequency bands, P4, the spectral energy change from 93.75 to 125 Hz, was more appropriately regarded as the features.

A Study on sEMG Simulation Modeling and Its Decomposition Methods

In this paper, we establish a surface electromyography(sEMG) signal model and study the signal decomposition method from noisy background. Firstly, single fiber action potential (SFAP), motor unit action potential (MUAP) and motor unit action potential train(MUAPT) are simulated based on the tripolar signal source model, and then the sEMG is obtained; secondly, the simulated sEMG signal is extracted from the mixed signals that consists of white noises, power frequency interference signal and electrocardio signal by independent component analysis (ICA) algorithms; lastly, the spikes corresponding to each motor unit action potential from the simulated sEMG signals were detected by applying the wavelet transform (WT) method. Simulation results showed that sEMG model could describe the physiological process of sEMG, ICA and WT methods could extract the sEMG signal and its features, which will lay a foundation for further classifying the MUAP.