Pattern recognition of EMG [for artificial hand project]

Author

Sebelius, Fredrik ; Eriksson, Lars ; Balkenius, Christian ; Laurell, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Meas., Lund Univ., Sweden

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Abstract

The Artificial Hand Project is a cross disciplinary cooperation project group that has the vision of building an artificial hand that will be accepted by the bearer as a part of the body and not as a tool as it is today. The investigation of a control system for such an advanced prosthesis is carried out in this paper using a simple motor system, the spinal withdraw reflex system on a rat. Electromyography measurements on a single rat performing 110 reflex movements have been conducted. Several electrodes localized in different muscles on the rat´s hindlimb and an artificial neural network (ANN) have been used to classify movements induced by stimuli on the skin of the rat paw. Different receptor fields are stimulated at the same time as the EMG measurement is processed by the ANN, which have the task of recognizing the origin of the stimuli

Keywords

artificial limbs; biocontrol; electromyography; medical signal processing; neurocontrollers; neuromuscular stimulation; pattern classification; self-organising feature maps; 3D coordinates approximation; ANN control system; EMG pattern recognition; advanced prosthesis; artificial hand project; control system; hindlimb; invariant algorithms; muscle localized electrodes; paw skin stimuli; rat; receptor fields; self-organising feature map; simple motor system; spinal withdraw reflex system; Artificial neural networks; Control systems; Electrodes; Electromyography; Muscles; Neural prosthesis; Pattern recognition; Performance evaluation; Plasma welding; Skin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.802645

Filename

802645