Real-time control of active ankle foot orthosis using LabVIEW and Compact-RIO

Author

Kanthi, M. ; Karteek, I.S.V. ; Mruthyunjaya, H.S. ; George, V.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Manipal Univ., Manipal, India

fYear

2012

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

299

Abstract

The main aim of this research is to develop a standalone embedded system for the control of dorsiflexion or plantarflexion movement using surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals in an active ankle foot orthosis. The proposed control system consists of sEMG electrodes, National Instruments CompactRIO (NI cRIO), NI Analog Input Module, Digital output module, motor driver and a DC motor. NI compact RIO is a programmable automation controller which uses analog and digital I/O modules which acquires the required data and controls the hardware. CompactRIO is programmed by using NI LabVIEW.

Keywords

DC motor drives; actuators; biomechanics; biomedical electrodes; electromyography; embedded systems; input-output programs; medical computing; medical control systems; orthotics; Compact-RIO; DC motor; LabVIEW; active ankle foot orthosis; analog I/O modules; analog input module; digital I/O modules; digital output module; dorsiflexion movement control; motor driver; plantarflexion movement control; programmable automation controller; real time foot orthosis control; sEMG electrodes; sEMG signals; stand alone embedded system; surface electromyography signals; DC motors; Electromyography; Foot; Instruments; Joints; Muscles; Nickel; Orthosis; Orthotic; compactRIO; gait; sEMG;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1990-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICoBE.2012.6179024

Filename

6179024