Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation

Tremor is one of the most common movement disorders. Based on Elble and Koller' s definition, it is defined as, "the involuntary rhythmic or semi rhythmic oscillation of a body part resulting from alternating of simultaneous contractions of antagonistic muscle groups". Tremor caused b...

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Main Author: Ferdinan Widjaja
Other Authors: Ang Wei Tech
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-428822023-03-11T17:49:15Z Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation Ferdinan Widjaja Ang Wei Tech School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Robotics Research Centre DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Assistive technology Tremor is one of the most common movement disorders. Based on Elble and Koller' s definition, it is defined as, "the involuntary rhythmic or semi rhythmic oscillation of a body part resulting from alternating of simultaneous contractions of antagonistic muscle groups". Tremor caused by injuries or diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke, etc., can be problematic both physically and emotionally. If the tremor is affecting the upper limb, the patient will have difficulties even to do activities of daily living such as buttoning, inserting key to keyhole, writing, etc, thus degrading his quality of daily life. Furthermore it may lead to social embarrassment and isolation. The cost of the treatment and the cost borne by the family and community are also significant. This thesis shows the feasibility of real-time tremor attenuation by proposing novel algorithms in an assistive technology solution. The contribution of the proposed system is using surface Electromyography (SEMG) as the sensor to detect the upper limb movement. SEMG is used because it precedes the kinematics data (accelerometer-ACC in this case) by 20-100 ms. This time lead provides the necessary time to process the information and to do real-time compensation of tremor. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MAE) 2011-01-28T03:45:59Z 2011-01-28T03:45:59Z 2011 2011 Thesis Ferdinan Widjaja. (2011). Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/42882 10.32657/10356/42882 en 194 p. application/pdf
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Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
description Tremor is one of the most common movement disorders. Based on Elble and Koller' s definition, it is defined as, "the involuntary rhythmic or semi rhythmic oscillation of a body part resulting from alternating of simultaneous contractions of antagonistic muscle groups". Tremor caused by injuries or diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke, etc., can be problematic both physically and emotionally. If the tremor is affecting the upper limb, the patient will have difficulties even to do activities of daily living such as buttoning, inserting key to keyhole, writing, etc, thus degrading his quality of daily life. Furthermore it may lead to social embarrassment and isolation. The cost of the treatment and the cost borne by the family and community are also significant. This thesis shows the feasibility of real-time tremor attenuation by proposing novel algorithms in an assistive technology solution. The contribution of the proposed system is using surface Electromyography (SEMG) as the sensor to detect the upper limb movement. SEMG is used because it precedes the kinematics data (accelerometer-ACC in this case) by 20-100 ms. This time lead provides the necessary time to process the information and to do real-time compensation of tremor.
author2 Ang Wei Tech
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author Ferdinan Widjaja
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title Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
title_short Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
title_full Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
title_fullStr Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
title_full_unstemmed Sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
title_sort sensing of pathological tremor using surface electromyography and accelerameter for real-time attenuation
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