sEMG-Based Hand Movement Regression by Prediction of Joint Angles With Recurrent Neural Networks

Philipp Koch, Kamran Mohammad-Zadeh, Marco Maass, Mark Dreier, Ole Thomsen, Tim J. Parbs, Huy Phan, Alfred Mertins

Abstract

This work takes a step towards a better biosignal based hand gesture recognition by investigating the strategies for a reliable prediction of hand joint angles. Those strategies are especially important for medical applications in order to achieve e.g. good acceptance of hand prostheses among amputees. A recurrent neural network with a small footprint is deployed to estimate the joint positions from surface electromyography data measured at the forearm. As the predictions are expected to be not smooth, different post processing methods and a regularisation term for the objective function of the network are proposed. The experiments were conducted on publicly available databases. The results reveal that both post processing strategies and regularisation have a positive impact on the results with a maximal relative improvement of 6.13 %. On the one hand post processing strategies introduce an additional delay, consequently, the improvement is analysed in context of the caused delay. On the other hand the regularisation strategy does not cause a delay and can be adjusted easily to cope with different ground truths or compensate for certain problems in the hand tracking.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jahrgang2021
Ausgabenummer43
Seiten (von - bis)6519-6523
Seitenumfang5
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 01.11.2021

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