How to improve the muscle synergy analysis methodology?

NA Turpin, S Uriac, G Dalleau - European journal of applied physiology, 2021 - Springer
Muscle synergy analysis is increasingly used in domains such as neurosciences, robotics,
rehabilitation or sport sciences to analyze and better understand motor coordination. The …

Muscle synergies for evaluating upper limb in clinical applications: A systematic review

K Zhao, Z Zhang, H Wen, B Liu, J Li, A d'Avella… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Introduction Muscle synergies have been proposed as a strategy employed by the central
nervous system to control movements. Muscle synergy analysis is a well-established …

[HTML][HTML] Muscle synergies in joystick manipulation

L Cai, S Yan, C Ouyang, T Zhang, J Zhu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Extracting muscle synergies from surface electromyographic signals (sEMGs) during
exercises has been widely applied to evaluate motor control strategies. This study explores …

Non-negative matrix factorisation is the most appropriate method for extraction of muscle synergies in walking and running

MF Rabbi, C Pizzolato, DG Lloyd, CP Carty… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Muscle synergies provide a simple description of a complex motor control mechanism.
Synergies are extracted from muscle activation patterns using factorisation methods. Despite …

A comprehensive spatial map** of muscle synergies in highly variable upper-limb movements of healthy subjects

A Scano, L Dardari, F Molteni, H Giberti… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background Recently, muscle synergy analysis has become a standard methodology for
extracting coordination patterns from electromyographic (EMG) signals, and for the …

Transferring sensor-based assessments to clinical practice: the case of muscle synergies

A Scano, V Lanzani, C Brambilla, A d'Avella - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sensor-based assessments in medical practice and rehabilitation include the measurement
of physiological signals such as EEG, EMG, ECG, heart rate, and NIRS, and the recording of …

Intra-subject and inter-subject movement variability quantified with muscle synergies in upper-limb reaching movements

K Zhao, Z Zhang, H Wen, A Scano - Biomimetics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Quantifying movement variability is a crucial aspect for clinical and laboratory investigations
in several contexts. However, very few studies have assessed, in detail, the intra-subject …

A multimodal approach to capture post-stroke temporal dynamics of recovery

C Pierella, E Pirondini, N Kinany… - Journal of neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Several training programs have been developed in the past to restore motor
functions after stroke. Their efficacy strongly relies on the possibility to assess individual …

Modular control of human movement during running: an open access data set

A Santuz, A Ekizos, L Janshen, F Mersmann… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The human body is an outstandingly complex machine including around 1000 muscles and
joints acting synergistically. Yet, the coordination of the enormous amount of degrees of …

Low-rank modular reinforcement learning via muscle synergy

H Dong, T Wang, J Liu, C Zhang - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Modular Reinforcement Learning (RL) decentralizes the control of multi-joint robots
by learning policies for each actuator. Previous work on modular RL has proven its ability to …