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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii

1. INTRODUCTION 1

2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2

3. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 3

4. DESCRIPTION OF THE EMG SIGNAL 4

5. AN EXPERIMENT 5

5.1 OBJECT 5

5.2 EXPERIMENT OBJECTIVE 5

5.3 THEORY 5

5.4 METHODS 5

5.5 THE CIRCUIT 6

5.6 COLLISION DETECTION 8

5.7 DISCUSSION 8

6. ADVANTAGES 9

6.1 ANALYSIS OF SURFACEELECTROMYOGRAM 9

SIGNALS DURING HUMAN FINGER MOVEMENTS

6.2 MATERIAL AND METHOD 10

6.3 METHOD 11

6.4 RESUTS AND DISCUSSION 12

7. SOME SPECIFICS FOR USE OF SURFACE AND FINE WIRE ELECTRODES 13

8. EMG APPLICATIONS 14

9. FUTURE WORK 14

10. CONCLUSIONS 15