This week the team had a few successes on both the hardware and software sides. On the hardware side, all the parts finally arrived so we have been able to solder parts together for the EMG system. On the software side, the mock controller has been helpful in serving as an intermediate workaround to test the game while the hardware is being developed. We are a little behind schedule as we would like to collect data in order to begin…
This week our team approved and ordered hardware components for EMG data collection. Our Bill of Materials is here. We settled on the specific arm movements that will control the game as well as where electrodes will be placed on the forearm. Another success is that the specific data collection experimental protocol has been established and a functional game has been created. A Mock Muscle Controller was created in order to decouple the game dependency on the EMG hardware. This…
This week I spent time doing a thorough literature review of various EMG papers. I learned more about the EMG experimentation set up process in order to design our own experiment to collect EMG forearm data. Reading through EMG papers I found common classification algorithms and successful features extracted to improve EMG movement classification. I shared with the team my primary experimental set up for data collection. After initial discussion, we decided on initial electrode placement for when we perform…