Characterization of the vibration transmitted in the human arm using selected recurrence quantification parameters

This paper deals with the analysis of the time series signals extracted from the vibration of a human arm. The data are extracted at the wrist, elbow and shoulder of three male subjects with different vibration pre-exposure levels. The method of recurrence analysis is used to extract features in order to characterize the nature of the vibration transmitted from the wrist to the elbow and the shoulder. A comparative analysis among the individual levels of pre-exposure is carried out. It is shown that some recurrence parameters, namely the recurrence rate, the entropy, the mean diagonal and the trapping time appear to be efficient in characterizing the nature of the vibration. Overall, the analysis performed in this paper shows that the method of recurrence analysis can effectively be used to quantitatively discriminate between the nature of the vibration transmitted in the human arm and illustrate the effects of the vibration pre-exposure.

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