IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
Online ISSN : 1348-8155
Print ISSN : 0385-4221
ISSN-L : 0385-4221
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Estimation of Muscular Load Based on EMG by Considering Bodily Features
—Clustering of Bodily Features and Improvement of Estimation Accuracy—
Daisuke KushidaYumi NagatomiAkira Kitamura
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2013 Volume 133 Issue 5 Pages 978-984

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In the rehabilitation for the motor function recovery, the menu of the rehabilitation has been decided based on doctor's subjectivity by knowledge and the experience. However, the decision based on doctor's subjectivity has the possibility of inviting the result that the judgement is different in each doctor. On the other hand, authors were relating “muscular power coefficient”, that showed the relation of EMG (Electromyogram) and muscular load, and bodily features in the nonlinear model by GP (Genetic Programing). As a result, a muscular condition was enabled to be estimated objectively only by knowing patient's bodily features. This paper proposed the improvement of the estimation accuracy by clustering based on subject's bodily features, and constructing the nonlinear model in each class. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by the experimental work using the subjects at two or more ages.
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