TY - GEN
T1 - An investigation into thumb rotation using high density surface electromyography of extrinsic hand muscles
AU - Aranceta-Garza, A.
AU - Lakany, H.
AU - Conway, B. A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - Improving our understanding of mechanisms driving thumb rotation could potentially advance the design of current upper limb prosthesis to incorporate powered thumb control increasing the dexterity of the device. This study investigates thumb rotation using high density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) of extrinsic hand muscles. An apparatus was designed and developed to test thumb rotation. Relevant data were acquired during isometric voluntary contractions with a 20-40% of maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) performed by 7 healthy right-handed volunteers. Data were processed and analyzed. Analysis showed that, thumb position could be extracted using features extracted from the HDsEMG data recorded with high statistical significance.
AB - Improving our understanding of mechanisms driving thumb rotation could potentially advance the design of current upper limb prosthesis to incorporate powered thumb control increasing the dexterity of the device. This study investigates thumb rotation using high density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) of extrinsic hand muscles. An apparatus was designed and developed to test thumb rotation. Relevant data were acquired during isometric voluntary contractions with a 20-40% of maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) performed by 7 healthy right-handed volunteers. Data were processed and analyzed. Analysis showed that, thumb position could be extracted using features extracted from the HDsEMG data recorded with high statistical significance.
KW - Dexterous upper limb myoelectric prosthesis
KW - High density surface electromyography
KW - Thumb rotation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893570195&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SMC.2013.639
DO - 10.1109/SMC.2013.639
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893570195
SN - 9780769551548
T3 - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013
SP - 3751
EP - 3755
BT - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013
Y2 - 13 October 2013 through 16 October 2013
ER -