Real-time EMG based pattern recognition control for hand prostheses: A review on existing methods, challenges and future implementation

N Parajuli, N Sreenivasan, P Bifulco, M Cesarelli… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Upper limb amputation is a condition that significantly restricts the amputees from performing
their daily activities. The myoelectric prosthesis, using signals from residual stump muscles …

Myoelectric control of prosthetic hands: state-of-the-art review

P Geethanjali - Medical Devices: Evidence and Research, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Myoelectric signals (MES) have been used in various applications, in particular, for
identification of user intention to potentially control assistive devices for amputees, orthotic …

Control of upper limb prostheses: Terminology and proportional myoelectric control—A review

A Fougner, Ø Stavdahl, PJ Kyberd… - … on neural systems …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent introduction of novel multifunction hands as well as new control paradigms
increase the demand for advanced prosthetic control systems. In this context, an …

Myoelectric forearm prostheses: State of the art from a user-centered perspective

B Peerdeman, D Boere, H Witteveen… - Journal of …, 2011 - research.utwente.nl
User acceptance of myoelectric forearm prostheses is currently low. Awkward control, lack of
feedback, and difficult training are cited as primary reasons. Recently, researchers have …

Prosthetic myoelectric control strategies: a clinical perspective

AD Roche, H Rehbaum, D Farina, OC Aszmann - Current Surgery Reports, 2014 - Springer
Control algorithms for upper limb myoelectric prostheses have been in development since
the mid-1940s. Despite advances in computing power and in the performance of these …

Simultaneous and proportional estimation of hand kinematics from EMG during mirrored movements at multiple degrees-of-freedom

S Muceli, D Farina - IEEE transactions on neural systems and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes and tests on able-bodied subjects a control strategy that can be
practically applied in unilateral transradial amputees for simultaneous and proportional …

An efficient multilayer RBF neural network and its application to regression problems

Q Jiang, L Zhu, C Shu, V Sekar - Neural computing and Applications, 2022 - Springer
By combining multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) and radial basis function neural networks (RBF-
NNs), an efficient multilayer RBF network is proposed in this work for regression problems …

An upper-limb power-assist exoskeleton using proportional myoelectric control

Z Tang, K Zhang, S Sun, Z Gao, L Zhang, Z Yang - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
We developed an upper-limb power-assist exoskeleton actuated by pneumatic muscles. The
exoskeleton included two metal links: a nylon joint, four size-adjustable carbon fiber bracers …

Hand rehabilitation devices: A comprehensive systematic review

R Kabir, MSH Sunny, HU Ahmed, MH Rahman - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
A cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke, can cause significant neurological damage,
inflicting the patient with loss of motor function in their hands. Standard rehabilitation therapy …

Decoding simultaneous multi-DOF wrist movements from raw EMG signals using a convolutional neural network

W Yang, D Yang, Y Liu, H Liu - IEEE Transactions on Human …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pattern recognition (PR) methods are commonly utilized in the extraction of motion
intentions from myoelectric signals, which is realized by relating several electromyogram …