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Preliminary Design of a EMG Wearable Interface for the Actuation of Soft Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

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Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing IV (JCM 2022)

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This paper presents the use of surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals for the actuation of soft pneumatic artificial muscles. The idea behind this paper is finding a relationship between a natural muscle and an artificial muscle, do it through an analysis of the sEMG data. We start from the characterization of a specific soft pneumatic artificial muscle and we relate the root mean square value of the sEMG signal to the contraction of the actuator itself. This work might pave the way for the development of intuitive wearable interfaces for the actuation of soft robots.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the BIOIC project (Bioinspired soft robotic systems for cognitive production) https://www.bioic.unina.it/.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy

    Teodorico Caporaso, Stanislao Grazioso, Benedetta M. V. Ostuni & Antonio Lanzotti

  2. Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Via Salvecchio 19, 24129, Bergamo, Italy

    Benedetta M. V. Ostuni

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli'', Aversa, Italy

    Salvatore Gerbino

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples FedericoII, Naples, Italy

    Antonio Lanzotti

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Massimo Martorelli

  4. Ingeniería de Diseño y Fabricación, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Ramón Mirálbes Buil

  5. Univesity of Bergamo, Dalmine, Bergamo, Italy

    Caterina Rizzi

  6. Arts et Métiers Institute, Aix En Provence Cedex 1, France

    Lionel Roucoules

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Caporaso, T., Grazioso, S., Ostuni, B.M.V., Lanzotti, A. (2023). Preliminary Design of a EMG Wearable Interface for the Actuation of Soft Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. In: Gerbino, S., Lanzotti, A., Martorelli, M., Mirálbes Buil, R., Rizzi, C., Roucoules, L. (eds) Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing IV. JCM 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15928-2_108

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