TY - GEN
T1 - Dexterous Force Estimation during Finger Flexion and Extension Using Motor Unit Discharge Information
AU - Zheng, Yang
AU - Hu, Xiaogang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - With the development of advanced robotic hands, a reliable neural-machine interface is essential to take full advantage of the functional dexterity of the robots. In this preliminary study, we developed a novel method to estimate isometric forces of individual fingers continuously and concurrently during dexterous finger flexion and extension. Specifically, motor unit (MU) discharge activity was extracted from the surface high-density electromyogram (EMG) signals recorded from the finger extensors and flexors, respectively. The MU information was separated into different groups to be associated with the flexion or extension of individual fingers and was then used to predict individual finger forces during multi-finger flexion and extension tasks. Compared with the conventional EMG amplitude-based method, our method can obtain a better force estimation performance (a higher correlation and a smaller estimation error between the predicted and the measured force) when a linear regression model was used. Further exploration of our method can potentially provide a robust neural-machine interface for intuitive control of robotic hands.
AB - With the development of advanced robotic hands, a reliable neural-machine interface is essential to take full advantage of the functional dexterity of the robots. In this preliminary study, we developed a novel method to estimate isometric forces of individual fingers continuously and concurrently during dexterous finger flexion and extension. Specifically, motor unit (MU) discharge activity was extracted from the surface high-density electromyogram (EMG) signals recorded from the finger extensors and flexors, respectively. The MU information was separated into different groups to be associated with the flexion or extension of individual fingers and was then used to predict individual finger forces during multi-finger flexion and extension tasks. Compared with the conventional EMG amplitude-based method, our method can obtain a better force estimation performance (a higher correlation and a smaller estimation error between the predicted and the measured force) when a linear regression model was used. Further exploration of our method can potentially provide a robust neural-machine interface for intuitive control of robotic hands.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175236
DO - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175236
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85090994513
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 3130
EP - 3133
BT - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2020
Y2 - 20 July 2020 through 24 July 2020
ER -