Development of the input equipment for a computer using surface EMG

Author

Ando, Keiichi ; Nagata, Kentaro ; Kitagawa, Daisuke ; Shibata, Naoki ; Yamada, Masafumi ; Magatani, Kazushige

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokai Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

1331

Lastpage

1334

Abstract

SEMG (surface EMG) has many benefits, for example measuring SEMG is easy and a characteristic pattern of SEMG is obtained for each different movement. Therefore, SEMG that is generated by body movement is able to use as a control signal for some electric powered equipments. Our objective is the perfect control of the computer by using SEMG that is generated from forearms. In this paper, we will talk about our developed interface system that works as a keyboard of the computer

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical electrodes; biomedical measurement; electromyography; keyboards; medical computing; user interfaces; body movement; electric powered equipments; interface system; keyboard; multichannel electrode; surface EMG measurement system; Cities and towns; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; Electrodes; Electromyography; Keyboards; Microcomputers; Muscles; Silver; USA Councils; EMG; Multi Channel Electrode;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259222

Filename

4462006