A surface electromyogram (sEMG) contains information about physiological and morphological characteristics of the active muscle and its neural strategies. Because the electrodes are situated on the skin above the muscle, the sEMG is an easily obtainable source of information. However, different combinations of physiological and morphological characteristics can lead to similar sEMG signals and ...

This article presents a method to obtain a myoelectric control system for hand prosthesis with individual fingers, wrist flexion/extension and grasp movements, based on weak surface electromyogram (sEMG) recorded from the forearm, both able-bodied and amputees. This study aims to a reduced-channel scheme (a single sEMG channel) for hand patterns discrimination. A combination of commonly used fe...

This paper reports experiments conducted to classify single channel Surface Electromyogram recorded from the forearm with the flexion and extension of the different fingers. Controlled experiments were conducted where single channel SEMF was recorded from the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle for various finger positions from the volunteers. A modified wavelet network called Thresholding Wa...

This research aimed to appreciate whether the mechanomyogram (MMG) may be used to monitor the muscle behavior under fatiguing exercise. The electromyogram (EMG) and MMG were simultaneously recorded from the Biceps and from the Brachioradialis muscles, with surface electrodes EMG, and accelerometer based transducers – MMG, from sixteen subjects. The conclusions are consistent in validating the u...

This study has described and experimentally validated the differential electrodes surface electromyography (sEMG) model for tibialis anterior muscles during isometric contraction. This model has investigated the effect of pennation angle on the simulated sEMG signal. The results show that there is no significant effect of pennation angle in the range 0° to 20° to the single fibre action potenti...

Age-related neuromuscular change of Tibialis Anterior (TA) is a leading cause of muscle strength decline among the elderly. This study has established the baseline for age-associated changes in sEMG of TA at different levels of voluntary contraction. We have investigated the use of Gaussianity and maximal power of the power spectral density (PSD) as suitable features to identify age-associated ...

Two studies are presented, in which emotional vocal recordings were made using a computer emotion induction task and an imagination technique. Concurrent recordings were made of a variety of physiological parameters, including electroglottograph, respiration, electrocardiogram, and surface electromyogram (muscle tension). Acoustic parameters pertaining to voice quality, including F0 floor, F0 r...

In recent years, driver drowsiness and driver inattention are the major causes for road accidents leading to severe traumas such as physical injuries, deaths, and economic losses. This necessitates the need for a system that can alert the driver on time, whenever he is drowsy or inattentive. Previous research works report the detection of either drowsiness or inattention only. In this work, we ...