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sEMG-Based Joint Force Control for an Upper-Limb Power-Assist Exoskeleton Robot

This paper investigates two surface electromyogram (sEMG)-based control strategies developed for a power-assist exoskeleton arm. Different from most of the existing position control approaches, this paper develops force control methods to make the exoskeleton robot behave like humans in order to pro...

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Published in:IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2014-05, Vol.18 (3), p.1043-1050
Main Authors: Li, Zhijun, Wang, Baocheng, Sun, Fuchun, Yang, Chenguang, Xie, Qing, Zhang, Weidong
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Language:English
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Summary:This paper investigates two surface electromyogram (sEMG)-based control strategies developed for a power-assist exoskeleton arm. Different from most of the existing position control approaches, this paper develops force control methods to make the exoskeleton robot behave like humans in order to provide better assistance. The exoskeleton robot is directly attached to a user's body and activated by the sEMG signals of the user's muscles, which reflect the user's motion intention. In the first proposed control method, the forces of agonist and antagonist muscles pair are estimated, and their difference is used to produce the torque of the corresponding joints. In the second method, linear discriminant analysis-based classifiers are introduced as the indicator of the motion type of the joints. Then, the classifier's outputs together with the estimated force of corresponding active muscle determine the torque control signals. Different from the conventional approaches, one classifier is assigned to each joint, which decreases the training time and largely simplifies the recognition process. Finally, the extensive experiments are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
ISSN:2168-2194
2168-2208
DOI:10.1109/JBHI.2013.2286455