Since this mismatch, a spike occurred at every 10th (0.1 / 0.01) frequency in the frequency domain.
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I am using Delsys Bagnoli EMG System to acquire sEMG from forearm muscles. When I use Delsys EMGworks application, output signals are clean as expected with minor interferences. However, when I use the following Matlab script to acquire the signal unusual signal pattern occured (spikes). the image of frequency domain of the Data (Red color frequencies contains EMG information) acquired from Matlab script is attached herewith. I want to know why this happens and how to remove thoses spikes the Matlab script: %% EMG initialize raw = zeros(1,6); % EMG setup emg = daq.createSession('ni'); ch1 = addAnalogInputChannel(emg, 'Dev1', 0, 'Voltage'); ch2 = addAnalogInputChannel(emg, 'Dev1', 1, 'Voltage'); ch3 = addAnalogInputChannel(emg, 'Dev1', 2, 'Voltage'); ch4 = addAnalogInputChannel(emg, 'Dev1', 3, 'Voltage'); ch5 = addAnalogInputChannel(emg, 'Dev1', 4, 'Voltage'); ch6 = addAnalogInputChannel(emg, 'Dev1', 5, 'Voltage'); emg.Rate = 4000; % sampling rate lh = emg.addlistener('DataAvailable',@stopWhenExceed); emg.NotifyWhenDataAvailableExceeds = 400; % data per one feature set (total of all channels) emg.IsContinuous = true; emg.startBackground(); while 1 % check the existing time.mat file time(end + 1 : end + 1, 1) = str2double(datestr(now,'SS.FFF')); pause(0.01); % this pause should be there to acquire EMG data if (getGlobalSx==0) % if new set of data is available data = getGlobalx; % aquire data setGlobalSx(1); end raw(end +1:end+400, : ) = data; end
Expert Answer
Neeta Dsouza
PhD Expert
Answered Aug 30, 2026
I realized that the pause we provide to the code to acquire EMG data should be equal to the,
emg.NotifyWhenDataAvailableExceeds / emg.Rate
which means 400/ 4000 = 0.1 not 0.01
Otherwise this multirate signal sampling happens.
while 1
% check the existing time.mat file
time(end + 1 : end + 1, 1) = str2double(datestr(now,'SS.FFF'));
% ---------------------This value should be 0.1.-------------------------------
pause(0.1); % this pause should be there to acquire EMG data
if (getGlobalSx==0) % if new set of data is available
data = getGlobalx; % aquire data
setGlobalSx(1);
end
raw(end +1:end+400, : ) = data;
end
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