Análisis del temblor esencial con Kinovea y MSC Adams View para su caracterización y simulación

Luis Alfonso Manzanares Quirós; Andrés Blanco-Ortega; Rafael Campos Amezcua; Enrique Alcudia-Zacarías; Arturo Abúndez Pliego; Arturo Javier Martínez Mata

doi:10.37636/recit.v9n4e499

Authors

Luis Alfonso Manzanares Quirós TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1549-9591

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Andrés Blanco-Ortega TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0088-6863

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Rafael Campos Amezcua TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3380-2598

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Enrique Alcudia-Zacarías TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6206-573X

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Arturo Abúndez Pliego TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8220-4338

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Arturo Javier Martínez Mata TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5288-079X

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37636/recit.v9n4e499

Keywords:

Essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, Tremor analysis, Motion tracking, Kinovea software

Abstract

Hand tremor is the most common involuntary movement, caused by neurodegenerative age-related diseases and movement disorders, as Parkinson's disease and essential tremor, recognized as the most common movement disorder among the elderly, affecting 0.9% of world's population, the main essential tremor's characteristic, is the kinetic tremor, which appears in the realization of voluntary movements in daily activities, such as, writing, eating and drinking. In this paper we present the analysis of hand tremor captured in video using Kinovea software, this analysis is used then to develop a virtual environment of simulation in MSC Adams View software, aiming to integrate these programs in the development of prototypes and control techniques for hand tremor suppression, in this paper it was simulated the influence of tremor in wrist in rest and during a voluntary action, also it was simulated the action of an exoskeleton by implementing a PD control to suppress the tremor, obtaining a 99.63% of suppression in movements with frequencies in tremor characteristic range (4 to 12Hz).

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Author Biographies

Andrés Blanco-Ortega, TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.

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Rafael Campos Amezcua, TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.

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Enrique Alcudia-Zacarías, TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.

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Arturo Abúndez Pliego, TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

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Arturo Javier Martínez Mata, TecNM | Tecnológico Nacional de México campus CENIDET, Dirección Interior Internado Palmira S/N, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.

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