Figure 5.
Reconstruction of muscle activation patterns with three muscle synergies using each factorisation method during walking for one representative participant: (a) muscle synergy weights (W1-W3) from 10 included muscles and synergy excitation primitives identified using NMF, PCA, ICA and FA, (b) original muscle activation patterns and reconstructed muscle activation patterns for 10 included muscles. a.u: arbitrary unit.; m1: biceps femoris; m2: lateral gastrocnemius; m3: medial gastrocnemius; m4: peroneus longus; m5: peroneus brevis; m6: rectus femoris: m7: sartorius; m8: soleus; m9: tibialis anterior; m10: vastus lateralis.