BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) has grown rapidly in recent decades, and several RAS procedures have become the standard. However, the physical and mental demands of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques can lead to ergonomic shortco...
Accurate detection of user intention is a critical requirement for intelligent control systems in upper-limb rehabilitation robots. However, electromyography (EMG)-based recognition can degrade significantly under muscle fatigue. To address this limi...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Nov 18, 2025
Physical fatigue significantly contributes to work-related musculoskeletal disorders, highlighting the need to understand its effects during manual handling tasks for effective prevention strategies. This study examines the correlation between change...
The gait analysis has been applied in many fields, such as the assessment of falling, force evaluation in sports, and gait disorder detection for neuromuscular diseases. Its main recording techniques include video cameras and wearable sensors. Howeve...
This study aims to develop a cost-effective and reliable motion monitoring device capable of comprehensive fatigue analysis. It achieves this objective by integrating surface electromyography (sEMG) and accelerometer (ACC) signals through a feature f...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Oct 7, 2024
Muscle fatigue impacts upper extremity function but is often overlooked in biomechanical models. The present work leveraged a transfer learning approach to improve torque predictions during fatiguing upper extremity movements. We developed two artifi...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jul 26, 2024
Myoelectric indices forecasting is important for muscle fatigue monitoring in wearable technologies, adaptive control of assistive devices like exoskeletons and prostheses, functional electrical stimulation (FES)-based Neuroprostheses, and more. Non-...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Aug 4, 2023
Muscle fatigue detection is of great significance to human physiological activities, but many complex factors increase the difficulty of this task. In this article, we integrate several effective techniques to distinguish muscle states under fatigue ...
To minimize fatigue, sustain workloads, and reduce the risk of injuries, the exoskeleton Carry was developed. Carry combines a soft human-machine interface and soft pneumatic actuation to assist the elbow in load holding and carrying. We hypothesize ...
Nowadays, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems, which use wearables and smart systems, are a part of our daily life. Despite the abundance of literature in the area, little is known about the impact of muscle fatigue on these systems' performance...
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