2024
Marie Dominique Schmidt; Ioannis Iossifidis
Decoding Upper Limb Movements Proceedings Article
In: BCCN Bernstein Network Computational Networkvphantom, 2024.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: BCI, Machine Learning, Muscle activity
@inproceedings{DecodingUpperLimb2024,
title = {Decoding Upper Limb Movements},
author = {Marie Dominique Schmidt and Ioannis Iossifidis},
url = {https://abstracts.g-node.org/conference/BC24/abstracts#/uuid/4725140f-ce7c-4ac5-b694-c627ceeb8d98},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-09-18},
urldate = {2024-09-24},
publisher = {BCCN Bernstein Network Computational Networkvphantom},
abstract = {The upper limbs are essential for performing everyday tasks that require a wide range of motion and precise coordination. Planning and timing are crucial to achieve coordinated movement. Sensory information about the target and current body state is critical, as is the integration of prior experience represented by prelearned inverse dynamics that generate the associated muscle activity. We propose a generative model that uses a recurrent neural network to predict upper limb muscle activity during various simple and complex everyday movements. By identifying movement primitives within the signal, our model enables the decomposition of these movements into a fundamental set, facilitating the reconstruction of muscle activity patterns. Our approach has implications for the fundamental understanding of movement control and the rehabilitation of neuromuscular disorders with myoelectric prosthetics and functional electrical stimulation.},
keywords = {BCI, Machine Learning, Muscle activity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
The upper limbs are essential for performing everyday tasks that require a wide range of motion and precise coordination. Planning and timing are crucial to achieve coordinated movement. Sensory information about the target and current body state is critical, as is the integration of prior experience represented by prelearned inverse dynamics that generate the associated muscle activity. We propose a generative model that uses a recurrent neural network to predict upper limb muscle activity during various simple and complex everyday movements. By identifying movement primitives within the signal, our model enables the decomposition of these movements into a fundamental set, facilitating the reconstruction of muscle activity patterns. Our approach has implications for the fundamental understanding of movement control and the rehabilitation of neuromuscular disorders with myoelectric prosthetics and functional electrical stimulation.
2023
Marie D. Schmidt; Tobias Glasmachers; Ioannis Iossifidis
The Concepts of Muscle Activity Generation Driven by Upper Limb Kinematics Journal Article
In: BioMedical Engineering OnLine, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 63, 2023, ISSN: 1475-925X.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial generated signal, BCI, Electromyography (EMG), Generative model, Inertial measurement unit (IMU), Machine Learning, Motion parameters, Muscle activity, Neural networks, transfer learning, Voluntary movement
@article{schmidtConceptsMuscleActivity2023,
title = {The Concepts of Muscle Activity Generation Driven by Upper Limb Kinematics},
author = {Marie D. Schmidt and Tobias Glasmachers and Ioannis Iossifidis},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-023-01116-9},
doi = {10.1186/s12938-023-01116-9},
issn = {1475-925X},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-24},
urldate = {2023-06-24},
journal = {BioMedical Engineering OnLine},
volume = {22},
number = {1},
pages = {63},
abstract = {The underlying motivation of this work is to demonstrate that artificial muscle activity of known and unknown motion can be generated based on motion parameters, such as angular position, acceleration, and velocity of each joint (or the end-effector instead), which are similarly represented in our brains. This model is motivated by the known motion planning process in the central nervous system. That process incorporates the current body state from sensory systems and previous experiences, which might be represented as pre-learned inverse dynamics that generate associated muscle activity.},
keywords = {Artificial generated signal, BCI, Electromyography (EMG), Generative model, Inertial measurement unit (IMU), Machine Learning, Motion parameters, Muscle activity, Neural networks, transfer learning, Voluntary movement},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
The underlying motivation of this work is to demonstrate that artificial muscle activity of known and unknown motion can be generated based on motion parameters, such as angular position, acceleration, and velocity of each joint (or the end-effector instead), which are similarly represented in our brains. This model is motivated by the known motion planning process in the central nervous system. That process incorporates the current body state from sensory systems and previous experiences, which might be represented as pre-learned inverse dynamics that generate associated muscle activity.