Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Ministry of Education, School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
Abstract
Robotic devices have great potential in physical therapy owing to their repeatability, reliability and cost economy. However, there are great challenges to realize active control strategy, since the operator’s motion intention is uneasy to be recognized by robotics online. The purpose of this paper is to propose a subject-specific electromyography (EMG)-driven musculoskeletal model to estimate subject’s joint torque in real time, which can be used to detect his/her motion intention by forward dynamics, and then to explore its potential applications in rehabilitation robotics control. The musculoskeletal model uses muscle activation dynamics to extract muscle activation from raw EMG signals, a Hill-type muscle-tendon model to calculate muscle contraction force, and a proposed subject-specific musculoskeletal geometry model to calculate muscular moment arm. The parameters of muscle activation dynamics and muscle-tendon model are identified by off-line optimization methods in order to minimize the differences between the estimated muscular torques and the reference torques. Validation experiments were conducted on six healthy subjects to evaluate the proposed model. Experimental results demonstrated the model’s ability to predict knee joint torque with the coefficient of determination ([Formula: see text] value of [Formula: see text] and the normalized root-mean-square error (RMSE) of [Formula: see text].
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Mechanical Engineering
Cited by
25 articles.
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