Optical Sensing of Muscle Activity

Jacopo Franco; Simon Stuttaford; Patrick Degenaar; Matthew Dyson

doi:10.57922/mec.2511

Optical Sensing of Muscle Activity

Authors

Jacopo Franco
Simon Stuttaford
Patrick Degenaar
Matthew Dyson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57922/mec.2511

Abstract

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in alternative muscle sensing methods. Optical myography is a relatively new field in muscle sensing techniques, which uses light to detect variation in the shape underlying muscle as it is contracted. We investigated the effect of finger motion and sensor placement on the resulting optical signal and compared it to clinical electromyography. Evidence suggests that the optical signal is strongly correlated to muscle activity and has high spatial accuracy.