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Muscle activation
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 4:27 pm
by eskimo
Hello,
In which units comes muscle activation? Volts? For example, add_long_r.activation.
Re: Muscle activation
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 1:20 am
by mitkof6
Muscle activation is a unit-less quantity in the range [0, 1]. If you are interested to compare with emg then you have to
1) scale the emg by the maximum voluntary contraction value
2) remove DC and rectify
3) apply a band pass filter to extract the envelope
Best