Abstract
For a long time, people have carried out various studies on human body communication (HBC) in order to establish a suitable communication link through human body. However, in the galvanic coupled method of HBC, the high current intensity is rarely used to implement the communication link. In the medical field, functional electrical stimulation (FES) is often used to send high intensity electrical pulses to make muscles contract, and this contraction phenomenon will generate surface electromyography (sEMG) signals on the surface of human skins. According to this principle and the galvanic coupling method of HBC, we propose a new digital communication system based on FES and sEMG signal detection with human body as communication channel in this paper. We modulate the transmitted signal into electrical stimulation to stimulate the muscles and detect the sEMG signal caused by it to achieve a complete communication process. The framework of the entire communication system is proposed. Its error performance for different stimulation parameters is tested and evaluated by experiments. Using FES and sEMG signal detection, our work makes a new exploration of HBC at high current intensities and enables a complete communication link. This work is expected to be applied to the HBC design combined with electrical stimulation in medical field.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | BHI-BSN 2022 - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics and IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks - Proceedings |
| Place of Publication | U. S. A. |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781665487917 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Sept 2022 |
| Event | 2022 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2022 - Ioannina, Greece Duration: 27 Sept 2022 → 30 Sept 2022 |
Publication series
| Name | BHI-BSN 2022 - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics and IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks - Proceedings |
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Conference
| Conference | 2022 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2022 |
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| Country/Territory | Greece |
| City | Ioannina |
| Period | 27/09/22 → 30/09/22 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation, China, under Grant 61971314, in part by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality under Grant 19510744900, and in part by the Sino-German Center of Intelligent Systems, Tongji University.
Funding
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation, China, under Grant 61971314, in part by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality under Grant 19510744900, and in part by the Sino-German Center of Intelligent Systems, Tongji University.
Keywords
- functional electrical stimulation (FES)
- Human body communication (HBC)
- surface electromyography (sEMG)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science Applications
- Biomedical Engineering
- Instrumentation