Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach

The use of robotic systems has been investigated over the past couple of decades in improving rehabilitation training of hemiplegic patients. In an ideal situation, the system should be able to detect the intention of the subject and assist them as needed in performing certain training tasks. In...

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Main Authors: Mohd Khairuddin, Ismail, Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P., Ahmad Puzi, Asmarani
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author Mohd Khairuddin, Ismail
Sidek, Shahrul Na'im
Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P.
Ahmad Puzi, Asmarani
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Sidek, Shahrul Na'im
Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P.
Ahmad Puzi, Asmarani
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description The use of robotic systems has been investigated over the past couple of decades in improving rehabilitation training of hemiplegic patients. In an ideal situation, the system should be able to detect the intention of the subject and assist them as needed in performing certain training tasks. In this study, we leverage on the information from the electromyogram (EMG) signals, to detect the subject’s intentions in generating motion commands for a robotic assisted upper limb rehabilitation system. As EMG signals are known for its very low amplitude apart from its susceptibility to noise, hence, signal processing is mandatory, and this step is non-trivial for feature extraction. The EMG signals are recorded from ten healthy subjects’ bicep muscles, who are required to provide a voluntary movement of the elbow’s flexion and extension along the sagittal plane. The signals are filtered by a fifth-order Butterworth filter. Several features were extracted from the filtered signals namely waveform length, mean absolute value, root mean square and standard deviation. Two different classifiers viz. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbour (kNN) were investigated on its efficacy in accurately classifying the pre-intention and intention classes based on the selected features, and it was observed from this investigation that the kNN classifier yielded a better classification with a classification accuracy of 96.4 %
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spelling iium-787142020-04-07T03:39:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78714/ Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach Mohd Khairuddin, Ismail Sidek, Shahrul Na'im Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P. Ahmad Puzi, Asmarani T Technology (General) The use of robotic systems has been investigated over the past couple of decades in improving rehabilitation training of hemiplegic patients. In an ideal situation, the system should be able to detect the intention of the subject and assist them as needed in performing certain training tasks. In this study, we leverage on the information from the electromyogram (EMG) signals, to detect the subject’s intentions in generating motion commands for a robotic assisted upper limb rehabilitation system. As EMG signals are known for its very low amplitude apart from its susceptibility to noise, hence, signal processing is mandatory, and this step is non-trivial for feature extraction. The EMG signals are recorded from ten healthy subjects’ bicep muscles, who are required to provide a voluntary movement of the elbow’s flexion and extension along the sagittal plane. The signals are filtered by a fifth-order Butterworth filter. Several features were extracted from the filtered signals namely waveform length, mean absolute value, root mean square and standard deviation. Two different classifiers viz. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbour (kNN) were investigated on its efficacy in accurately classifying the pre-intention and intention classes based on the selected features, and it was observed from this investigation that the kNN classifier yielded a better classification with a classification accuracy of 96.4 % IEEE 2020-01-09 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78714/8/78714%20Classifying%20Motion%20Intention%20from%20EMG%20signal.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78714/9/78714%20Classifying%20Motion%20Intention%20from%20EMG%20signal%20SCOPUS.pdf Mohd Khairuddin, Ismail and Sidek, Shahrul Na'im and Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P. and Ahmad Puzi, Asmarani (2020) Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach. In: 2019 7th International Conference on Mechatronics Engineering (ICOM) 2019, 30th–31st October 2019, Putrajaya. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8952042 10.1109/ICOM47790.2019.8952042
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Mohd Khairuddin, Ismail
Sidek, Shahrul Na'im
Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.P.
Ahmad Puzi, Asmarani
Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach
title Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach
title_full Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach
title_fullStr Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach
title_full_unstemmed Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach
title_short Classifying motion intention from EMG signal: A kNN approach
title_sort classifying motion intention from emg signal: a knn approach
topic T Technology (General)
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