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Pattern classification of hand movements using time domain features of electromyography

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posted on 2017-09-04, 14:39 authored by Carl Robinson, Baihua LiBaihua Li, Qinggang MengQinggang Meng, Matthew PainMatthew Pain
Myoelectric control of prostheses is a long-established technique, using surface electromyography (sEMG) to detect the electrical signals of muscle activity and perform subsequent mechanical actions. Despite several decades’ research, robust, responsive and intuitive control schemes remain elusive. Current commercial hardware advances offer a variety of movements but the control systems are unnatural, using sequential switching methods triggered by specific sEMG signals. However, recent research with pattern recognition and simultaneous and proportional control shows good promise for natural myoelectric control. This paper investigates several sEMG time domain features using a series of hand movements performed by 11 subjects, taken from a benchmark database, to determine if optimal classification accuracy is dependent on feature set size. The features were extracted from the data using a sliding window process and applied to five machine learning classifiers, of which Random Forest consistently performed best. Results suggest a few simple features such as Root Mean Square and Waveform Length achieve comparable performance to using the entire feature set, when identifying the hand movements, although further work is required for feature optimisation.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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4th International Conference on Movement Computing

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ROBINSON, C.P. ...et al., 2017. Pattern classification of hand movements using time domain features of electromyography. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Movement Computing (MOCO '17), London, 28-30th June, Article no 27.

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© Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2017

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Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. The definitive Version of Record was published in Communications of the ACM: https://doi.org/10.1145/3077981.3078031

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9781450352093

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  • en

Location

London

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