Electromyography data recorded from orbicularis oculi muscle during a novel grasping pilot study

Developing assistive devices for quadriplegic people is very difficult because there are only a few ways in which we can take control commands from the patients. The challenge is to fulfill all the functional and non-functional requirements of the patients using those limited control commands. It is reported in the published literature that the abandonment rate of already available assistive devices is very high. We require more and more research in this domain so that we can develop more effective devices and control algorithms. One hindrance in the development of these devices and control algorithms is the limited access to machines to receive required data from the patients to control assistive devices. In this research, we have proposed a novel way to control assistive devices and presented data for the development of the algorithm too. We recorded the data from the orbicularis oculi muscle from 5 healthy volunteers. Volunteers included 3 males and 2 females, aged 29.5 ± 2.1 years. The recording was done with the help of the RMS Salus 2c EMG machine.