Abstract
Electromechanical delay (EMD) is a biological artifact that arises due to a time lag between electrical excitation and tension development in a muscle. EMD is known to cause degraded performance and instability during neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Compensating for such input delay is complicated by the unknown nonlinear muscle force-length and muscle force-velocity relationships. This paper provides control development and a mathematical stability analysis of a NMES controller with a predictive term that actively accounts for EMD. The results are obtained through the development of a novel predictor-type method to address the delay in the voltage input to the muscle. Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals are used within a Lyapunov-based stability analysis to prove semi-global uniformly ultimately bounded tracking. Experiments on able-bodied volunteers illustrate the performance and robustness of the developed controller during a leg extension trajectory following task.
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