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Wireless sEMG Acquisition and Monitoring—A Survey

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Biological signals play a vital role in monitoring the health condition of the patient. These signals include ECG, EMG, EEG, EKG, etc. Electromyogram is a popular technique to record, evaluate and analyze the electrical activity of the skeletal muscles. Clinically, EMG is used as a diagnostic tool to identify neurological disorders and as an assessment tool in physiotherapy, yoga therapy, rehabilitation, biofeedback, training and sports medicine. Remote monitoring of EMG signals gives us knowledge about muscle activity during exercise or physiotherapy at our convenience thus avoiding muscle fatigue. Commercial EMG acquisition systems are of high cost and maintenance and the wired systems cause discomfort in measuring EMG during rehabilitation exercises. Hence many researchers provided low-cost alternative solutions. In this paper, a detailed survey on different EMG acquisition systems considering the performance, mode of transmission and type of signal conditioning and processing units is done.

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The study was a part of the project funded by Department of Science and Technology. The authors acknowledge the financial support from Science and Technology of Yoga and Meditation (SATYAM) under the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India for sanctioning the project-File No.: DST/SATYAM/2018/20(G) to Velammal Engineering College, Chennai.

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Delina Rajkumari, R.D., Rajiah, P., Lakshmi Sangeetha, A., Pravin Renold, A., Balaji Ganesh, A. (2022). Wireless sEMG Acquisition and Monitoring—A Survey. In: Satyanarayana, C., Gao, XZ., Ting, CY., Muppalaneni, N.B. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, High Performance Computing, Smart Devices and Networks. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4044-6_3

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