Abstract
A processing method is presented by which the surface electromyogram can be processed to the muscle force. The smoothed rectified EMG and the joint angle (proportional to the muscle length) are the inputs of an electrical analogue of the Hill muscle model. The output of the analogue is the torque around the joint due to the muscle force and, by multiplication with the joint rotation, the muscle work. Both can be obtained instantaneously, irrespective of the type of contraction (isometric, isotonic, auxotonic, etc.). The processor is described and some potentialities are shown. Methods by which to find the parameter values of the muscle model and methods for the evaluation of the processor performance are discussed. The relevant experiments, on the human calf muscles (M. triceps surae), will be described in the subsequent parts of this series of papers.
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