Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel

Arthritis, Parkinson's disease, Cerebral Palsy, natural aging and stroke are the main causes of arm impairment for an increasing part of the population. For instance, stroke affects 15 million people annually in the world causing upper limb disability, also about 78 million arthritis cases with...

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Main Authors: Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid, Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha, Shafie, Suhaidi, Ahmad, Siti Anom, Jaafar, Haslina
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68307/
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author Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid
Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha
Shafie, Suhaidi
Ahmad, Siti Anom
Jaafar, Haslina
author_facet Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid
Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha
Shafie, Suhaidi
Ahmad, Siti Anom
Jaafar, Haslina
author_sort Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid
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description Arthritis, Parkinson's disease, Cerebral Palsy, natural aging and stroke are the main causes of arm impairment for an increasing part of the population. For instance, stroke affects 15 million people annually in the world causing upper limb disability, also about 78 million arthritis cases with grasping impairment are expected yearly in US by the year of 2040. Therefore, hand robotic devices can be essential tools to help individuals afflicted with hand deficit to perform activities of daily living in addition to the possibility of restoring hand functions by home rehabilitation. In this paper, a real time muscle activity detection algorithm has been developed to control a pneumatic actuated soft robotic glove intended for patients with grasping impairment. The algorithm employs two amplitude independent and computations efficient methods to detect weak and noisy muscle activities from surface electromyography (sEMG) signal obtained by a single channel located on the forearm. These methods are the first lag autocorrelation of the normalized sEMG signal and the modified SampEn method. The algorithm is also insensitive to the spurious background spikes that may contaminate the sEMG signal and deteriorate the performance of amplitude dependent detection methods. The merging of these two methods enables the algorithm to distinguish between hand open and hand close activities by using sEMG signal collected by only one channel. The efficacy of the algorithm has been evaluated on a healthy subject wearing the soft robotic glove, where the algorithm has recognized the hand close and hand open muscle activities with high accuracy. Employing single sEMG channel with computation efficient control algorithm leads to reducing the cost and the size of the soft robotic glove system and make it more practical for utilization in daily basis.
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spelling upm-683072019-05-10T08:30:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68307/ Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha Shafie, Suhaidi Ahmad, Siti Anom Jaafar, Haslina Arthritis, Parkinson's disease, Cerebral Palsy, natural aging and stroke are the main causes of arm impairment for an increasing part of the population. For instance, stroke affects 15 million people annually in the world causing upper limb disability, also about 78 million arthritis cases with grasping impairment are expected yearly in US by the year of 2040. Therefore, hand robotic devices can be essential tools to help individuals afflicted with hand deficit to perform activities of daily living in addition to the possibility of restoring hand functions by home rehabilitation. In this paper, a real time muscle activity detection algorithm has been developed to control a pneumatic actuated soft robotic glove intended for patients with grasping impairment. The algorithm employs two amplitude independent and computations efficient methods to detect weak and noisy muscle activities from surface electromyography (sEMG) signal obtained by a single channel located on the forearm. These methods are the first lag autocorrelation of the normalized sEMG signal and the modified SampEn method. The algorithm is also insensitive to the spurious background spikes that may contaminate the sEMG signal and deteriorate the performance of amplitude dependent detection methods. The merging of these two methods enables the algorithm to distinguish between hand open and hand close activities by using sEMG signal collected by only one channel. The efficacy of the algorithm has been evaluated on a healthy subject wearing the soft robotic glove, where the algorithm has recognized the hand close and hand open muscle activities with high accuracy. Employing single sEMG channel with computation efficient control algorithm leads to reducing the cost and the size of the soft robotic glove system and make it more practical for utilization in daily basis. IEEE 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68307/1/Soft%20robotic%20glove%20system%20controlled%20with%20amplitude%20independent%20muscle%20activity%20detection%20algorithm%20by%20using%20single%20sEMG%20channel.pdf Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid and Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha and Shafie, Suhaidi and Ahmad, Siti Anom and Jaafar, Haslina (2018) Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel. In: 2018 IEEE 5th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA 2018), 28-30 Nov. 2018, Songkla, Thailand. . 10.1109/ICSIMA.2018.8688753
spellingShingle Hameed, Husamuldeen Khalid
Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha
Shafie, Suhaidi
Ahmad, Siti Anom
Jaafar, Haslina
Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel
title Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel
title_full Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel
title_fullStr Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel
title_full_unstemmed Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel
title_short Soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single sEMG channel
title_sort soft robotic glove system controlled with amplitude independent muscle activity detection algorithm by using single semg channel
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68307/
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