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Electromyogram (EMG) signals recorded from the skin surface enable intuitive control of assistive devices such as prosthetic limbs. However, in EMG-based motion recognition, collecting comprehensive training data for all target motions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Itsuki Yazawa , Seitaro Yoneda , Akira Furui

Myoelectric control is one of the leading areas of research in the field of robotic prosthetics. We present our research in surface electromyography (sEMG) signal classification, where our simple and novel attention-based approach now leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 David Josephs , Carson Drake , Andrew Heroy , John Santerre

In this paper we propose a new pre-processing technique of Electroencephalography (EEG) signals produced by motor imagery movements. This technique results to an accelerated determination of the imagery movement and the command to carry it…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-11 Kalogiannis Gregory , Kapsimanis George , Hassapis George

Electrocardiogram (EMG) signals play a significant role in decoding muscle contraction information for robotic hand prosthesis controllers. Widely applied decoders require large amount of EMG signals sensors, resulting in complicated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Jin Ren , Guohui Song , Lucia Tabacu , Yuesheng Xu

Tactile sensing is a crucial perception mode for robots and human amputees in need of controlling a prosthetic device. Today robotic and prosthetic systems are still missing the important feature of accurate tactile sensing. This lack is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiaying Wang , Fabian Geiger , Vlad Niculescu , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Electromyograms (EMG)-based hand gesture recognition systems are a promising technology for human/machine interfaces. However, one of their main limitations is the long calibration time that is typically required to handle new users. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Martin Colot , Cédric Simar , Mathieu Petieau , Ana Maria Cebolla Alvarez , Guy Cheron , Gianluca Bontempi

Recognizing sEMG (Surface Electromyography) signals belonging to a particular action (e.g., lateral arm raise) automatically is a challenging task as EMG signals themselves have a lot of variation even for the same action due to several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Geesara Prathap , Titus Nanda Kumara , Roshan Ragel

A brain-computer interface (BCI) may be used to control a prosthetic or orthotic hand using neural activity from the brain. The core of this sensorimotor BCI lies in the interpretation of the neural information extracted from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 A. K. Mohamed , T. Marwala , L. R. John

Surface Electromyography (sEMG/EMG) is to record muscles' electrical activity from a restricted area of the skin by using electrodes. The sEMG-based gesture recognition is extremely sensitive of inter-session and inter-subject variances. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 István Ketykó , Ferenc Kovács , Krisztián Zsolt Varga

A central challenge in building robotic prostheses is the creation of a sensor-based system able to read physiological signals from the lower limb and instruct a robotic hand to perform various tasks. Existing systems typically perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Dean Zadok , Oren Salzman , Alon Wolf , Alex M. Bronstein

Electromyogram (EMG) has been utilized to interface signals for prosthetic hands and information devices owing to its ability to reflect human motion intentions. Although various EMG classification methods have been introduced into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Akira Furui , Takuya Igaue , Toshio Tsuji

Gestures are an integral part of our daily interactions with the environment. Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is the process of interpreting human intent through various input modalities, such as visual data (images and videos) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Soroush Baghernezhad , Elaheh Mohammadreza , Vinicius Prado da Fonseca , Ting Zou , Xianta Jiang

Human-machine interaction, particularly in prosthetic and robotic control, has seen progress with gesture recognition via surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals.However, classifying similar gestures that produce nearly identical muscle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yanlong Chen , Mattia Orlandi , Pierangelo Maria Rapa , Simone Benatti , Luca Benini , Yawei Li

This paper presents a novel neuromorphic control architecture for upper-limb prostheses that combines surface electromyography (sEMG) with gaze-guided computer vision. The system uses a spiking neural network deployed on the neuromorphic…

Advances in biosignal signal processing and machine learning, in particular Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have paved the way for the development of innovative Human-Machine Interfaces for decoding the human intent and controlling artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Elahe Rahimian , Soheil Zabihi , Amir Asif , Dario Farina , S. Farokh Atashzar , Arash Mohammadi

Objective: Variation of forearm orientation is one of the crucial factors that drastically degrades the forearm orientation invariant hand gesture recognition performance or the degree of freedom and limits the successful commercialization…

Hands are the primary means through which humans interact with the world. Reliable and always-available hand pose inference could yield new and intuitive control schemes for human-computer interactions, particularly in virtual and augmented…

Classifying limb movements using brain activity is an important task in Brain-computer Interfaces (BCI) that has been successfully used in multiple application domains, ranging from human-computer interaction to medical and biomedical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Guangyi Zhang , Vandad Davoodnia , Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Yaoxue Zhang , Ali Etemad

Surface electromyogram (sEMG), as a bioelectrical signal reflecting the activity of human muscles, has a wide range of applications in the control of prosthetics, human-computer interaction and so on. However, the existing recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Xiupeng Qiao , Zekun Chen , Shili Liang

The upper limb of the body is a vital for various kind of activities for human. The complete or partial loss of the upper limb would lead to a significant impact on daily activities of the amputees. EMG carries important information of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sidharth Pancholi , Amit M. Joshi Deepak Joshi , Bradly S. Duerstock