Presentation 2015-12-19
A Method based on the Redundant Wavelet Analysis to Estimate Muscular Fatigue on Exercise in Real-Time
Hidetoshi Nagai,
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Abstract(in English) Muscular fatigue is one of the important properties for evaluating the status of a muscle. General methods to estimate muscular fatigue depend on relative change of signal power or frequency characteristics of the surface EMG when adding the same load to the muscle. Therefore, it is extremely hard to apply such methods for estimation of muscular fatigue by using a surface EMG during exercising with variable load. In this paper, I propose two factors and one coefficient to estimate muscular fatigue. I treat muscular fatigue in the sight of the quality of muscular and neural activity. Based on wavelet coefficients of redundant wavelet analysis, I propose the quality factor of muscular activity or neural activity. And by compounding those two factors, I define the fatigue coefficient. The coefficient is calculable in real-time, is stable against load change, and varies according to influence quantity of muscular fatigue on exercise.
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Keyword(in English) muscular activity / muscular fatigue / surface EMG / wavelet analysis / center-of-balance transition method / quality factor of muscular activity / quality factor of neural activity
Paper # MBE2015-69
Date of Issue 2015-12-12 (MBE)

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Committee MBE / NC
Conference Date 2015/12/19(1days)
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Place (in English) Nagoya Institute of Technology
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Chair Tetsuo Kobayashi(Kyoto Univ.) / Toshimichi Saito(Hosei Univ.)
Vice Chair Yutaka Fukuoka(Kogakuin Univ.) / Shigeo Sato(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Yutaka Fukuoka(akita noken) / Shigeo Sato(Kogakuin Univ.)
Assistant Takenori Oida(Kyoto Univ.) / Ryota Horie(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroyuki Kanbara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Hisanao Akima(Tohoku Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics / Technical Committee on Neurocomputing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Method based on the Redundant Wavelet Analysis to Estimate Muscular Fatigue on Exercise in Real-Time
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) muscular activity
Keyword(2) muscular fatigue
Keyword(3) surface EMG
Keyword(4) wavelet analysis
Keyword(5) center-of-balance transition method
Keyword(6) quality factor of muscular activity
Keyword(7) quality factor of neural activity
1st Author's Name Hidetoshi Nagai
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
Date 2015-12-19
Paper # MBE2015-69
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) MBE-383
Page pp.pp.37-42(MBE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-12-12 (MBE)