INTERFACE DESIGN OF A TRAINING ARM MUSCLES
Alejandro Cuatucuamba, Luz Mara Tobar
Universidad Tcnica del Norte, Carrera de Ingeniera en Mecatrnica
Av 17 de Julio 5-21, Ibarra, Ecuador
josecuatucuambaca@hotmail.com
lmtobarsubia@utn.edu.ec
ABSTRACT
Materials and methods for the acquisition of
electromyographic signals electronic cards made by
students at the Technical University of the North
"UTN" for interpreting signals the LabVIEW software
(National Instruments) that is capable of movements
used are used to 3D virtual hand, is a system it can be
installed on any PC that has Windows.
Preliminary Results and discussion: The coach has
been tested with two people, a person with
amputation of left upper limb and a person without
this disability, for the two cases for the two cases grip
and clamp the hand controlled movement to the once
muscle.
Conclusions: This trainer has been developed to assess
the condition of muscles and perform prior learning
before using a prosthesis. The group contained low
and simplicity of the system allows training at home,
facilitating and short-term training period.
KEYWORDS:
Coach, electromyographic signals, virtual hand, 3D
model, GUI, level of muscle contraction.
INTRODUCTION
The construction of the myoelectric trained is aimed
at preparing the muscles of the arms as an aid to a
previous use of prosthetics for people who have lost in
an accident your arm or hand.
The coach will consist of an electronic device for
transmitting data to a computer and a graphical
interface where you can see the range of movement of
the hand according to each muscle is to train.
In addition, it will be complemented with an
interface that let you choose which type of muscle is to
train, as the person with your training progress hand
will have more precise movements to achieve full
mobility. This allows faster functional rehabilitation
process of the muscles based on intensive and
repetitive exercises recommended by the therapist.
The coach of muscles benefit people with disabilities
of upper limb and facilitate the speedy recovery of the
functionality of muscles, since the person can make
training more often it does not need to move to a
rehabilitation center or therapist and thanks to visual
feedback that represent the movements on the
computer.
With the construction of myoelectric coach the
quality of life of people aimed at achieving Objective 3
of the National Plan for Good Living is improved. Which
states that "Improving the quality of life of the
population is a broad challenge that demands the
consolidation of the achievements of the last six and a
half years, by strengthening inter-sectoral policies and
consolidate the National System of Inclusion and Social
Equity ". (Senplades, 2013).
This research aims to develop a graphical interface
that models 3D hand, be able to interpret the
electromyographic signals (EMG) acquired from arm
muscles and perform hand movements such as
gripping, clamp and supination.
MATERIAL AND METHOD
Electronic materials that make up the coach signals
are:
acquisition card myoelectric signals.
Electronic card for data transmission
(communication).
interpretation system myoelectric signals.
 Acquisition card myoelectric signals
Card by a student "UTN" was used for the acquisition
of signals. Which has the following stages: stage of
"pre-amplification" filtering the signal and a surround
stage (transformation of positive voltages).
Card of data transmission
Card transmission has a microcontroller, which is
responsible for the conversion of the analog signal to
digital voltage ranges from 0V to 5V acquisition card,
then is sent via USB port to PC card drive is designed to
provide voltages from 0 to 5V, because EMG signals
are bipolar.
Interpretation of myoelectric signals
Electromyographic signals
At this stage two graphs are displayed, the first is the
actual reading of the signal input to the system and the
second is the processed signal with which it works
because it is more stable.
Selection muscle and hand movement
At this stage it represents the muscle training and
can choose the movement to be performed.
Furthermore, the contraction level display. The
interface also has the option to save the EMG signal
data in Excel format, in Figure 2 is described as written
above.

It has the following stages:

Initial settings

At this stage, the user selects the serial port "COM"

for which you want to receive data through the
interpretation system, the signal minimum and
maximum input is displayed, it is important because
this value is dependent for reference voltages, it
should be stressed that the EMG signals are not
constant so the reference voltages vary in each patient,
in Figure 1 a model of this stage with the different
fields mentioned above is presented.

Figure 2: Selecting the muscle in training.

Three-dimensional simulation of hand.

In the graphical interface, the model of a 3D hand

movements simulating (grip, clip and supination) is
observed, see Figure 3. The movement is as follows: as
the level of muscle electromyographic signal, the
execution of movement, greater signal generating
better movement progresses.

Figure 1: Initial Settings

 Matlab code index finger.
Figure 3: 3D simulation of hand.

Kinematic equations. L1=21.8; //longitud del metacarpo

L2=14.1 // longitud del medial
L3=8.6 // longitud del distal
The movement of the hand model is based on
t1=0:((pi/2)/20):(pi/2) // rango de movimientos
kinematic equations corresponding to each finger.
del dedo
t2=0:((pi/2)/20):(pi/2)
Index finger kinematic equation: the equations t3=0:((pi/2)/20):(pi/2)
according to anthropomorphic hand model (Victor px=L1*cos(t1)+L2*cos(t1+t2)+L3*cos(t2+t1+t3)
Martinez, 2006). //ecuacin del dedo
py=L1*sin(t1)+L2*sin(t1+t2)+L3*sin(t2+t1+t3)
plot(px,py)

Kinematic equation thumb:

Equations in the node A2= (X2, Y2):

Node A= (X, Y):
-X=L1.Cos (1)+L2.Cos (1+2)+ L3.Cos (1+2+ Node A= (X, Y):
3)+ L4.Cos (1+2+ 3+ 4) -X=L1.Cos (1) + L2.Cos (1+2)+ L3.Cos (1+2+ 3)
-Y=L1.Sen (1) + L2.Sen (1+2)+ L3.Sen (1+2+ -Y=L1.Sen (1) + L2.Sen (1+2)+ L3.Sen (1+2+ 3)
3)+ L4.Sen (1+2+ 3+ 4) Trajectory thumb:
Path index finger.

Code Matlab:
L1=21.8
L2=14.1
t1=0:((pi/2)/20):(pi/4)
t2=0:((pi/2)/20):(pi/4)
px=L1*cos(t1)+L2*cos(t1+t2)
py=L1*sin(t1)+L2*sin(t1+t2)
plot(px,py)
PRELIMINARY RESULTS AND DISCUSSION.
As preliminary results should be mentioned that for
performance validation tests were conducted coach in
two subjects keeping the same protocol, the first
person with a congenital amputation below the elbow
and the second is a person without amputation.
For the first person it is difficult to read a large sign
as arm muscles have not been in constant activity,
losing strength and having a range of small signal. Tests
were performed on two different muscles such as the
deltoid and biceps, deltoid to have more
electromyographic signal, as can be seen measuring
ranges in the following Figure 4.
Figure 4: Signal deltoid muscle.
The second person having no muscles amputation is
better defined which provides a greater signal range.
The second test biceps muscle, as it turned out that he
is more powerful signal, Figure 5 shows these ranges.
Figure 5: Signal muscle Biceps.
The point of electrode placement is very important
to acquire a good sign for each person is different
location.
To have a broader and deeper study of this research
topic coach suggested try more disabled people to
check the functionality of the GUI, the influence of
amputation in obtaining electromyographic signal and
variability in different patients.
Conclusiones
With tests the level of performance the coach was
verified, it concludes with the first subject several
drawbacks due to low muscle definition and little
muscle strength were presented. With the second
subject, tests were more successful, because muscle is
always in physical activity.
An interface (HMI) user friendly, which provides
many facilities designed to patient. For example: the
main parameters that are important to choose the best
possible training is configured from the same interface.
To discretize the signal, the coach work more
efficiently; in the signal that has a lot of noise and
coach showed some abnormalities when training was
held.
3D hand model designed it in Solidworks due to
advanced design tools that has the software and
subsequently imported into LabVIEW, once imported
the model engine was added to each joint or joint to
give movements.
Each joint movements are based on kinematic
equations according to the geometry of the hand.
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