Neuro-mechanical modeling and controlling of human limb movements of spinal cord injured patients

Author

Laczkó, József ; Pilissy, Tamás ; Tibold, Róbert

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Pazmany Peter Catholic Univ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

For the artificial control of human limb movements we defined muscle activity patterns to generate desired angular changes in the human arm and in the lower limb as well. Activity patterns based on experimentally measured data of healthy subjects and on a neuro-mechanical model. The theoretically predicted activity patterns can be used to generate desired limb movements in spinal cord injured patients and this leads to neuromorph control of neuroprostheses.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical measurement; motion control; neuromuscular stimulation; prosthetics; activity patterns; angular changes; artificial control; human arm; human limb movements; lower limb; neuro-mechanical modeling; neuromorph control; neuroprostheses; spinal cord injury; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Electromyography; Humans; Information technology; Kinematics; Knee; Muscles; Spinal cord; Ultrasonic variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2009. ISABEL 2009. 2nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4640-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4641-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373644

Filename

5373644