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Extracting Biomechanical Knowledge by Inductive Inference


Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.
Ken Ueno (ueno@sfc.keio.ac.jp)


Abstract

We can acquire a lot of physical skills subconsciously. For example, car driving skills, bicycle riding skills and so on. We focus on violoncello performance as an example of such skills because it needs many fine controls. It is very important for performers to know how experts realize their skills to realize efficient performances and avoid injuries.

Our final goal is to construct virtual violoncello instructor who can advice to make our skills better in the Biomechanical (Ergonomical) point of view. There are some layers in physical learning, which is based on neurological, kinetic, kinematic, and mental factors etc. As it is very hard to extract neurological and mental factors, we decided to extract kinetic and kinematic factors. For these 2 years we had some biomedical experiments with two kinds of biomedical sensors. One is Surface Electromyography (Surface EMG) which can measure how much muscle activates. The other is Retro Reflective Motion Capturing System which can track 3D motion of performers including X,Y,Z coordinates. In these experiments we found some circumstantial evidence of the importance of good spine posture during the performance. However, it is not so easy to analyze and interpret the biomedical time series data because it is very complicated and we have to consume many times to preprocess and analyze the data.

I will show our basic idea to extract biomechanical knowledge by C4.5 from biomedical signals and experimental results by C4.5 in case that the data contains 2 experimental conditions and the time series data has some structures. I will also show you some ideas about these kind of analyses which I got during my short stay in this campus.


Index

Extracting Biomechanical Knowledge by Inductive Inference

Aims

Outline

Problems

Method

Range of Motion (ROM)

Motor Programs in Central Nervous Unit

Dynamics

Cello Performance

Postural effects during musical instrumental Performance

Conjecture Postural effects for cello performance

Scapula

Scapula Movement

Back Muscles

Measurement Experiment

Measuring System

System Overview

Experimental Setting

Processing Raw EMG Data

Measuring Points

Tasks for Subjects

Results (Back Muscles)

Results (Back Muscles)

Results (Back Muscles)

Results (Back Muscles)

Results (Shoulder Muscles)

Results (Shoulder Muscles)

Results (Shoulder Muscles)

Results (Shoulder Muscles)

Summary of Results

Postural Effects for Bowing Skill

Knowledge Extracting Experiments with C4.5

Acquiring Kinematic Data

Acquiring Kinetic Data

Measuring Result (motion capturing)

Measuring Result (EMG)

Comparing in 2 conditions

Structures in Time Series

C4.5 Experiment1

C4.5 Experiment1

Experimental Result 1

Experimental Result 1

C4.5 Experiment 2

C4.5 Experiment 2

Experimental Result 2

Experimental result 2

Discussion

Related Work

Future Work (Measurement)

Future Work (Knowledge Extraction)

Future Work (Representation)

Acknowledgment


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