2014 conference paper

Novel wearable EMG sensors based on nanowire technology

2014 36th annual international conference of the ieee engineering in medicine and biology society (embc), 1674–1677.

By: A. Myers n, L. Du  n, H. Huang  n & Y. Zhu n

co-author countries: United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
MeSH headings : Electrodes; Electromyography; Humans; Male; Movement / physiology; Nanowires / chemistry; Nervous System Diseases / physiopathology; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Silver / chemistry; Wrist / physiology
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

Wearable electrodes made of silver nanowires (AgNWs) have demonstrated great potential for sensing a variety of physical and physiological signals. This paper aimed to study the feasibility of AgNWs electrodes for measuring surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals. One human subject was recruited and instructed to perform wrist extension repetitively or to produce no movement in the experiment. sEMG signals were collected from the right extensor digitorum communis of the human subject by an AgNWs electrode and a commercially available Ag/AgCl wet sEMG electrode, separately. The quality of recorded sEMG in time and frequency domains was compared between the two types of electrodes. The results showed that the sEMG signals recorded by the AgNW electrode were comparable with that by the Ag/AgCl electrode. Since the dry AgNWs electrodes are flexible, wearable, and potentially robust for daily use, novel AgNW-based EMG electrodes are promising for many biomedical applications, such as myoelectric control of artificial limbs.