Averaged EMG signal models obtained in cyclic processes

The main aim of this paper is to verify an objective method of averaging electromyographic signals for cyclic processes, which are presented on Symposium Wilga 2016. The process of creating an objective EMG signal model will be considered. The filtration, the method of smoothing the signal, the sequence of actions and the way they were carried out were taken into account. It is also attempts to measure and analyse the electromyographic signals obtained from the muscles of the lower limbs during the cyclic activity of walking with different loads. This research is based on the data collected in the Laboratory of Movement Analysis at the Medical University of Warsaw. The object of research was a healthy man in the age of 35. Based on the collected data, 130 objective EMG models were created. They correspond to ten muscles of the lower limbs. There were 13 different models calculated for each muscle, corresponding to its activity during the unloaded gait cycle and with left-, right- and double-sided loading for 2,4,6 and 8 kg. The signal models created in this way became the basis for the analysis, as a function of the load, of certain parameters of EMG signals generated during the walk. For each of the EMG signal models, the following parameters were calculated: a moment of muscle activation, duration of muscle activation, physiological costs incurred during muscle activation. Collected data could compere muscle activities and calculate the phases of their interactions.