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EnglishDevice wearability and operating time are trending topics in recent state-of-art works on surface ElectroMyoGraphic (sEMG) muscle monitoring. No optimal trade-off, able to concurrently address several problems of the acquisition system like robustness, miniaturization, versatility, and power efficiency, has yet been found. In this tutorial we present a solution to most of these issues, embedding in a single device both an sEMG acquisition channel, with our custom event-driven hardware feature extraction technique (named Average Threshold Crossing), and a digital part, which includes a microcontroller unit, for (optionally) sEMG sampling and processing, and a Bluetooth communication, for wireless data transmission. The knowledge acquired by the research group brought to an accurate selection of each single component, resulting in a very efficient prototype, with a comfortable final size (57.8mm x 25.2mm x 22.1mm) and a consistent signal-to-noise ratio of the acquired sEMG (higher than 15 dB). Furthermore, a precise design of the firmware has been performed, handling both signal acquisition and Bluetooth transmission concurrently, thanks to a FreeRTOS custom implementation. In particular, the system adapts to both sEMG and ATC transmission, with an application throughput up to 2 kB s-1 and an average operating time of 80 h (for high resolution sEMG sampling), relaxable to 8Bs-1 throughput and about 230 h operating time (considering a 110mAh battery), in case of ATC acquisition only. Here we share our experience over the years in designing wearable systems for the sEMG detection, specifying in detail how our event-driven approach could benefit the device development phases. Some previous basic knowledge about biosignal acquisition, electronic circuits and programming would certainly ease the repeatability of this tutorial.
Tutorial: A Versatile Bio-Inspired System for Processing and Transmission of Muscular Information / Rossi, Fabio; Mongardi, Andrea; Ros, Paolo Motto; Roch, Massimo Ruo; Martina, Maurizio; Demarchi, Danilo. - In: IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL. - ISSN 1530-437X. - ELETTRONICO. - (2021), pp. 1-1. [10.1109/JSEN.2021.3103608]
| Titolo: | Tutorial: A Versatile Bio-Inspired System for Processing and Transmission of Muscular Information | |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2021 | |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3103608 | |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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