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- Title
Selecting Pedal Load for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Based on the Combination of Muscle Synergy and Fourier Series.
- Authors
Kuroda, Shigeki; She, Jinhua; Nakamuro, Sota; Wang, Rennong; Chugo, Daisuke; Ishiguro, Keio; Sakai, Hiromi; Hashimoto, Hiroshi
- Abstract
This paper introduces a new lower-limb rehabilitation machine that meets the rehabilitation needs of hemiplegic patients. First, a left–right independent rotary pedal mechanism was selected to facilitate rehabilitation and adapt to the user's physical condition. Then, a half model of the lower-limb rehabilitation machine is designed and manufactured with ergonomics in mind. As analytical tools, we combine non-negative matrix factorization and non-negative double singular value decomposition to calculate muscle synergy of the walking muscle surface electromyography (sEMG) signal, and use cosine similarity to evaluate the similarity between walking and pedaling activities. By comparing the results of the walking and pedaling experiments, the effectiveness of pedaling in gait rehabilitation is revealed. To further improve the similarity between walking and pedaling, double integration of the sEMG signal is introduced, and the relationship between load input and rotation angle is described for the first time using Fourier series. The results of the experiment confirmed that more than half of the 10 subjects performed pedaling exercises similar to walking using Fourier series loading compared to pedaling exercises with normal constant loading. This loading parameter may have the potential to improve rehabilitation efficiency for many subjects compared to the usual exercise.
- Subjects
FOURIER series; MATRIX decomposition; SINGULAR value decomposition; COSINE function; NONNEGATIVE matrices; FITNESS walking; REHABILITATION
- Publication
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 3, p595
- ISSN
1343-0130
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20965/jaciii.2024.p0595