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The lack of haptically aware upper-limb prostheses forces amputees to rely largely on visual cues to complete activities of daily living. In contrast, able-bodied individuals inherently rely on conscious haptic perception and automatic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Neha Thomas , Farimah Fazlollahi , Jeremy D. Brown , Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Dexterous prosthetic hands have better grasp performance than traditional ones. However, patients still find it difficult to use these hands without a suitable control system. A new hybrid myoelectric control system, termed i-MYO, is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chunyuan Shi , Dapeng Yang , Jingdong Zhao , Li Jiang

Objective: Muscle contractions are commonly detected by performing EMG measurements. The major disadvantage of this technique is that mechanical disturbances to the electrodes are in the same frequency and magnitude range as the desired…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Roman Kusche , Martin Ryschka

We introduce BiGym, a new benchmark and learning environment for mobile bi-manual demo-driven robotic manipulation. BiGym features 40 diverse tasks set in home environments, ranging from simple target reaching to complex kitchen cleaning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Nikita Chernyadev , Nicholas Backshall , Xiao Ma , Yunfan Lu , Younggyo Seo , Stephen James

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a technology to assess muscle activation, which is an important component in applications related to diagnosis, treatment, progression assessment, and rehabilitation of specific individuals' conditions.…

Regressively-based surface electromyography (sEMG) prosthetics are widely used for their ability to continuously convert muscle activity into finger force and motion. However, they typically require additional kinematic or dynamic sensors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gang Liu , Ye Sun , Zhenxiang Wang , Chuanmei Xi , Ziyang He , Shanshan Guo , Rui Zhang , Dezhong Yao

Drivers with disabilities such as hemiplegia or unilateral upper limb amputation restricting steering wheel operation to one arm could encounter the challenge of stabilizing vehicles during pedestrian collision avoidance. An sEMG-controlled…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Edric John Cruz Nacpil , Zheng Wang , Zhanhong Yan , Tsutomu Kaizuka , Kimihiko Nakano

$\textit{Objective.}$ In this article, we present data and methods for decoding hand gestures using surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. EMG-based upper limb interfaces are valuable for amputee rehabilitation, artificial supernumerary limb…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Lee M. Miller

Advancements in information technology have increased demand for natural human-computer interaction in areas such as gaming, smart homes, and vehicles. However, conventional approaches like physical buttons or cameras are often limited by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Weiyi Wang , Lanqing Yang , Linqian Gan , Guangtao Xue

Surface electromyography (sEMG) records muscle activity during hand movement and can be decoded to recover detailed hand articulation. EMG and egocentric vision are complementary for hand sensing: EMG captures fine-grained finger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziheng Xi , Jiayi Yu , Yitao Wang , Yanbo Duan , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Human limb motion tracking and recognition plays an important role in medical rehabilitation training, lower limb assistance, prosthetics design for amputees, feedback control for assistive robots, etc. Lightweight wearable sensors,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Jiao Suo , Yifan Liu , Clio Cheng , Keer Wang , Meng Chen , Ho-yin Chan , Roy Vellaisamy , Ning Xi , Vivian W. Q. Lou , Wen Jung Li

The intrinsic biomechanical characteristic of the human upper limb plays a central role in absorbing the interactive energy during physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). We have recently shown that based on the concept of ``Excess of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xingyuan Zhou , Peter Paik , S. Farokh Atashzar

One of the most elusive goals in myographic prosthesis control is the ability to reliably decode continuous positions simultaneously across multiple degrees-of-freedom. Goal: To demonstrate dexterous, natural, biomimetic finger and wrist…

Recently, surface electromyogram (EMG) has been proposed as a novel biometric trait for addressing some key limitations of current biometrics, such as spoofing and liveness. The EMG signals possess a unique characteristic: they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ashirbad Pradhan , Jiayuan He , Ning Jiang

The paper describes highly-sensitive passive electric potential sensors (EPS) for non-contact detection of multiple biophysical signals, including electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration cycle (RC), and electroencephalogram (EEG). The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Xinyao Tang , Wangbo Chen , Soumyajit Mandal , Kevin Bi , Tayfun Ozdemir

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

Active metasurfaces provide unique advantages for on-demand light manipulation at a subwavelength scale for emerging applications of 3D displays, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) glasses, holographic projectors and light detection and…

Recent human computer-interaction (HCI) studies using electromyography (EMG) and inertial measurement units (IMUs) for upper-limb gesture recognition have claimed that inertial measurements alone result in higher classification accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Evan Campbell , Angkoon Phinyomark , Erik Scheme

Myoelectric pattern recognition is one of the important aspects in the design of the control strategy for various applications including upper-limb prostheses and bio-robotic hand movement systems. The current work has proposed an approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ahmed Aqeel Shaikh , Anand Kumar Mukhopadhyay , Soumyajit Poddar , Suman Samui

Electrodermal activity (EDA) reflects changes in skin conductance, which are closely tied to human psychophysiological states. For example, EDA sensors can assess stress, cognitive workload, arousal, or other measures tied to the…

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