RT Conference Proceedings T1 Compact electrotactile stimulation and EMG acquisition system with embedded blanking of stimulation artifacts A1 Strbac, Matija A1 Isakovic, Milica A1 Malesevic, Jovana A1 Keller, Thiery A1 Ilic, Vojin A1 Jorgovanovic, Nikola A1 Dosen, Strahinja AB We present a miniaturized closed-loop system for myoelectric control and electrotactile feedback in upper limb prostheses. The system integrates an electrotactile stimulator, which allows synchronous and asynchronous distribution of stimulation pulses, and an acquisition system for the simultaneous recording of multichannel EMG. The stimulator generates biphasic, current controlled pulses (amplitude: 0-5 mA; duration: 50-500 us; frequency: 1-100 Hz), which are routed by a demultiplexing circuitry to any of the 16 output channels. The acquisition system can be configured to record 8 bipolar or 16 monopolar EMG channels with a sampling frequency in the range from 500 Hz to 2 kHz. Embedded firmware incorporates direct calculation of ARV or RMS in the defined time window, as well as direct blanking of recording channels for the duration of the stimulation pulse artifact. Based on initial tests in a simple experimental setup we can determine that the developed system and proposed blanking algorithm can be used to record EMG signals during simultaneous delivery of electrical stimulation in challenging conditions (e.g., close electrode placement, high stimulation intensity). PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. SN 9781728109961 YR 2019 FD 2019-11 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2008 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2008 LA eng NO Strbac , M , Isakovic , M , Malesevic , J , Keller , T , Ilic , V , Jorgovanovic , N & Dosen , S 2019 , Compact electrotactile stimulation and EMG acquisition system with embedded blanking of stimulation artifacts . in 2019 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2019 . , 8965115 , 2019 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2019 , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , pp. 863-866 , 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2019 , Genoa , Italy , 27/11/19 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS46596.2019.8965115 NO conference NO Publisher Copyright: © 2019 IEEE. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 31 jul 2024