Abstract:
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The main objective of this project consists of the prediction of muscle activations of
one subject, through the application of the principal component analysis on another subject. The
process starts with the signal processing and filtering of kinematics and EMG
signals from both subjects, subsecuently, the principal components are obtained by using the
kinematics and EMG data from the first subject. The next step is to obtain the new muscle
activations from the second subject, by scalling the principal components with the kinematics
from the first subject as a reference. Finally, the whole MATLAB code is translated into python to
simulate in OpenSim the kinematics of a human muscle-driven model.
The results are focused mainly on the comparison between the muscle activations calculated during
this project and the original muscle activations from the second subject and on the analysis of the
principal components and scale factors calculated to obtain the muscle activations.
The idea is that in a near future, this analysis could be applied to perform a study of the
movement deficiencies of a subject that suffers from some kind of mobility impairement
without having to measure the EMG signals, with the intention of finding the optimal
treatment to improve its rehabilitation. |