@article{453,
  keywords = {Biomechanics and Sports},
  author = {Reza Razavian and Borna Ghannadi and Naser Mehrabi and Mark Charlet and John McPhee},
  title = {Feedback Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation for 2D Arm Reaching Movements},
  abstract = {<p>Functional electrical stimulation (FES) can be used as a neuroprosthesis in which muscles are stimulated by electrical pulses to compensate for the loss of voluntary movement control. Modulating the stimulation intensities to reliably generate movements is a challenging control problem. This paper introduces a feedback controller for a multi-muscle FES system to control hand movements in a two-dimensional (table-top) task space. This feedback controller is based on a recent human motor control model, which uses muscle synergies to simplify its calculations and improve the performance. This synergy-based&nbsp;controller employs direct relations between the muscle synergies and the produced hand force, thereby allowing for the real-time calculation of six muscle stimulation levels required to reach an arbitrary target. The experimental results show that this control&nbsp;scheme can perform arbitrary point-to-point reaching tasks in the two-dimensional task space in real-time, with an average of ~2 cm final hand position error from the specified targets. The success of this prototype demonstrates the potential of the proposed method for the feedback control of functional tasks with FES.</p>},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering},
  issn = {1534-4320},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8404077/},
  doi = {10.1109/TNSRE.2018.2853573},
}