Running Free: Wireless sEMG Garment for Tracking Runner's Muscle Fatigue

Muscle fatigue's indirect link to higher athletic injury risks is a key focus of this study. It highlights how fatigue-induced shifts in muscle resource allocation and movement patterns can lead to biomechanical imbalances, subsequently heightening injury susceptibility. Addressing high injury rates in athletics, this study was conducted in two...

Combining Manipulability and Fatigue for Multi-Metric Authority Arbitration of Physical Human-Robot Collaboration: A Proof of Concept

Human-robot interaction is a growing field that aims to research and develop communication channels between humans and robots to enhance comfort, safety, and productivity in healthcare, the household, and the industry. Researchers have considered ergonomy-related metrics to compose these channels for physical human-robot collaborative scenarios....

A Surface EMG System: Local Muscle Fatigue Detection

In the last 4 decades, surface electromyography (sEMG) signal processing has been applied to detect local muscle fatigue, this non-invasive approach is suitable for detecting EMG signals generated by athletes in motion. Also, EMG could directly reveal the muscle’s performance like endurance and recruitment of motor units, which is hard to be...

A selective muscle fatigue management approach to ergonomic human-robot co-manipulation

In this paper, we propose a method for selective monitoring and management of human muscle fatigue in human-robot co-manipulation scenarios. The proposed approach uses a machine learning technique to learn the complex relationship between individual human muscle forces, arm configuration and arm endpoint force that are provided by a...

Optimizing Reduction in Muscle Fatigue in FES Using Stimulation Patterns

Introduction: During functional electrical stimulation (FES) the onset of muscle fatigue limits the treatment and rehabilitation of patients. In previous work, variable frequency trains (VFT) have been suggested to take advantage of a tension enhancement property in muscle. The varying of other parameters in stimulation trains, such as amplitude...