background: surface electromyography (semg) of muscles is a non-invasive tool that can be helpful in the assessment of muscle function and some motor control evaluations. a loss of force, known as muscle fatigue is accompanied by changes in muscle electrical activity. one of the most commonly used surface emg parameters which reflects paraspinal muscle fatigue during different tasks and positio...

EMG ISB 2015-174 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MUSCLE SYNERGY PATTERNS IN HEALTHY AND ACL-DEFICIENT SUBJECTS Gil Serrancolí* 1, Joan C Monllau2, 3, 4, Josep M Font-Llagunes5 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Research Centre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital del Mar, 3ICATME, Hospital Universitari Quirón-Dexeus, 4 Univ...

Harvesting biomechanical energy from daily human body motions provides a promising and sustainable power solution for wearable electronics, whose current supplies, i.e., batteries, have unsatisfactory capacity durability due to volume, shape, flexibility constraints. Electromagnetic generators (EMGs) are favorable transducers because of their high energy-conversion efficiency, low dependence on...

BACKGROUND Blind source separation techniques have become the de facto standard for decomposing electroencephalographic (EEG) data. These methods are poorly suited for incorporating prior information into the decomposition process. While alternative techniques to this problem, such as the use of constrained optimization techniques, have been proposed, these alternative techniques tend to only m...