Design and development of muscle monitoring system to visualize and monitor the activity of Bicep Brachii with varying load

• Published in: 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Electrical Engineering and Computational Technologies (ICIEECT) pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Khalid, Eisha B., Salman, Afra, Khan, Zeeshan Y., Faris, Muhammad, Mujib, Muhammad Danish, Ansari, Tayyab A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2017
• Subjects: Band-pass filters; Bicep Brachii; Biomedical monitoring; Dynamic Contraction; Electrodes; Electromyography; Fatigue; Load Lifting; Monitoring; Muscles
• DOI: 10.1109/ICIEECT.2017.7916531

Muscles produce different responses under different conditions. In this paper, two conditions were monitored; with load and without load. Repetitive loading and unloading affects the soft tissues and causes muscle to fatigue consequently. The response from dynamic contraction of bicep brachii at elbow flexion after repetitive loading is observed. A muscle monitoring system is designed that uses specific muscle frequency bandwidth of Bicep Brachii muscle. The system uses surface electromyography (sEMG) technique for real time signal monitoring. The response of muscle under observation is monitored without load lifting and with weights of 5Kg and 8Kg. The muscle signal activity is monitored from bicep brachii during elbow flexion through real time Human Computer Interfacing (HCI). The response observed during the experiment showed that as the muscle progresses to fatigue, its amplitude begins to decrease and frequency increases. The muscle responses of a healthy person differ from that of a person with some muscular disorder. This system, therefore, benefits in the diagnosis and comparison of different muscular disorders. All subjects show different responses according to their respective muscle strengths.