Recognition of basic hand movements using Electromyography

Abstract

The aim of this work was to identify six basic movements of the hand using two systems. Being an interdisciplinary topic, there has been conducted studying in the anatomy of forearm muscles, biosignals, the method of electromyography (EMG) and methods of pattern recognition. Moreover, the signal contained enough noise and had to be analyzed, using EMD, to extract features and to reduce its dimensionality, using RELIEF and PCA, to improve the success rate of classification. The first part uses an EMG system of Delsys initially for an individual and then for six people with the average successful classification, for these six movements at rates of over 80%. The second part involves the construction of an autonomous system EMG using an Arduino microcontroller, EMG sensors and electrodes, which are arranged in an elastic glove. Classification results in this case reached 75% of success.