The role of muscle synergies in myoelectric control: trends and challenges for simultaneous multifunction control

M Ison, P Artemiadis - Journal of neural engineering, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Myoelectric control is filled with potential to significantly change human–robot interaction
due to the ability to non-invasively measure human motion intent. However, current control …

Causes of performance degradation in non-invasive electromyographic pattern recognition in upper limb prostheses

I Kyranou, S Vijayakumar, MS Erden - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Surface Electromyography (EMG)-based pattern recognition methods have been
investigated over the past years as a means of controlling upper limb prostheses. Despite …

Robust hand gesture recognition with a double channel surface EMG wearable armband and SVM classifier

M Tavakoli, C Benussi, PA Lopes, LB Osorio… - … Signal Processing and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Integration of surface EMG sensors as an input source for Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs)
is getting an increasing attention due to their application in wearable devices such as …

Surface EMG in advanced hand prosthetics

C Castellini, P Van Der Smagt - Biological cybernetics, 2009 - Springer
One of the major problems when dealing with highly dexterous, active hand prostheses is
their control by the patient wearing them. With the advances in mechatronics, building …

Building the Ninapro database: A resource for the biorobotics community

M Atzori, A Gijsberts, S Heynen… - 2012 4th IEEE RAS …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is about (self-powered) advanced hand prosthetics and their control via surface
electromyography (sEMG). We hereby introduce to the biorobotics community the first …

Surface EMG pattern recognition for real-time control of a wrist exoskeleton

ZO Khokhar, ZG Xiao, C Menon - Biomedical engineering online, 2010 - Springer
Background Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals have been used in numerous
studies for the classification of hand gestures and movements and successfully implemented …

Robust EMG pattern recognition in the presence of confounding factors: features, classifiers and adaptive learning

Y Gu, D Yang, Q Huang, W Yang, H Liu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional electromyogram (EMG) pattern recognition does not take into account the effect
of confounding factors, preventing its effective clinical application. In this paper, we …

Bilinear modeling of EMG signals to extract user-independent features for multiuser myoelectric interface

T Matsubara, J Morimoto - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we propose a multiuser myoelectric interface that can easily adapt to novel
users. When a user performs different motions (eg, grasping and pinching), different …

Multiday evaluation of techniques for EMG-based classification of hand motions

A Waris, IK Niazi, M Jamil, K Englehart… - IEEE journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, most of the adopted myoelectric schemes for upper limb prostheses do not
provide users with intuitive control. Higher accuracies have been reported using different …

Single channel surface EMG control of advanced prosthetic hands: A simple, low cost and efficient approach

M Tavakoli, C Benussi, JL Lourenco - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Surface EMGs have been the primary sources for control of prosthetic hands due to their
comfort and naturalness. The recent advances in the development of the prosthetic hands …