Myoelectric-Controlled Exoskeletal Elbow Robot to Suppress Essential Tremor: Extraction of Elbow Flexion Movement Using STFTs and TDNN

Ando, Takeshi; Robotics and Design for Innovative Healthcare, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 1-7 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Watanabe, Masaki; Nishimoto, Keigo; Matsumoto, Yuya; Seki, Masatoshi; Fujie, Masakatsu G.; Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 59-309, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

doi:10.20965/jrm.2012.p0141

Myoelectric-Controlled Exoskeletal Elbow Robot to Suppress Essential Tremor: Extraction of Elbow Flexion Movement Using STFTs and TDNN

Essential tremor is the most common of all involuntary movements. Many patients with an upper-limb tremor have serious difficulties in performing daily activities. We developed a myoelectric-controlled exoskeletal robot to suppress tremor. In this article, we focus on developing a signal processi…