TY - GEN
T1 - Prediction of lower-limb joint kinematics from surface EMG during overground locomotion
AU - Brantley, Justin A.
AU - Luu, Trieu Phat
AU - Nakagome, Sho
AU - Contreras-Vidal, Jose L.
PY - 2017/11/27
Y1 - 2017/11/27
N2 - Recent advancements in powered lower limb prostheses have led to the development of neural-machine interfaces for natural control during bipedal locomotion. In particular, electromyography (EMG) patterns recorded from the amputated limb can be leveraged to infer the intended gait pattern of the user. However, the optimal control strategy for translating the EMG patterns to kinematic space remains a challenge. In this study, six able bodied subjects were instrumented for mobile brain-body imaging and asked to walk on a multi-terrain gait course. A non-linear extension of the Kalman filter was used to predict knee and ankle joint kinematics from lower limb muscle activation patterns during overground locomotion. Specifically, muscles of the anterior and posterior thigh were used to predict both the knee and ankle joint position. The results revealed that muscles in the thigh can be used to predict the position of the knee and ankle with high accuracy. The highest mean r-value obtained for each of the six subjects was 0.92, 0.77, 0.38, 0.39, 0.63, and 0.77, with corresponding SNR values of 10.8 dB, 6.7 dB, 5.9 dB, 2.8 dB, 9.1 dB, and 9.2 dB, for each subject, respectively. This study is the first to demonstrate that continuous EMG can be used to predict the joint kinematics of the knee and ankle during overground locomotion. This approach may provide improvements during closed-loop control of a powered lower limb prosthesis when compared to other pattern-recognition based methods.
AB - Recent advancements in powered lower limb prostheses have led to the development of neural-machine interfaces for natural control during bipedal locomotion. In particular, electromyography (EMG) patterns recorded from the amputated limb can be leveraged to infer the intended gait pattern of the user. However, the optimal control strategy for translating the EMG patterns to kinematic space remains a challenge. In this study, six able bodied subjects were instrumented for mobile brain-body imaging and asked to walk on a multi-terrain gait course. A non-linear extension of the Kalman filter was used to predict knee and ankle joint kinematics from lower limb muscle activation patterns during overground locomotion. Specifically, muscles of the anterior and posterior thigh were used to predict both the knee and ankle joint position. The results revealed that muscles in the thigh can be used to predict the position of the knee and ankle with high accuracy. The highest mean r-value obtained for each of the six subjects was 0.92, 0.77, 0.38, 0.39, 0.63, and 0.77, with corresponding SNR values of 10.8 dB, 6.7 dB, 5.9 dB, 2.8 dB, 9.1 dB, and 9.2 dB, for each subject, respectively. This study is the first to demonstrate that continuous EMG can be used to predict the joint kinematics of the knee and ankle during overground locomotion. This approach may provide improvements during closed-loop control of a powered lower limb prosthesis when compared to other pattern-recognition based methods.
KW - Electromyography (EMG)
KW - Lower-limb prosthesis
KW - Myoelectric
KW - Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF)
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U2 - 10.1109/SMC.2017.8122861
DO - 10.1109/SMC.2017.8122861
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044167137
T3 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2017
SP - 1705
EP - 1709
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2017
Y2 - 5 October 2017 through 8 October 2017
ER -