Prediction of Flexion and Extension Movements of 4 Fingers of the Hand Using a New Labeled Method
Abstract This work presents a neural network classifier for identifying the flexion and extension movements for four fingers from the hand, out of the surface electromyography signals in the forearm muscles. A new labeled data method was proposed based on time segmentation to relate the sEMG signal with the corresponding finger movement. This is a different way of labeling the data for training the neural network, a llowing to reduce the amount of training gesture hand. The experiment consists of 10 sessions in which the fingers are flexed randomly, one at a time for 2 minutes with a 16ms sample time. The absolute mean value (MAV) is used as a feature extractor in the time domain to a verage 5 samples a nd the normalized data is used for the neural network. Results show that this system with the labeled data method, provides a 98.83% precision value for the index finger, 93.46% for the ring finger, 80.34% for the middle finger, and 68.46% for the little finger. The results are simila r to those found in the literature where they classify different gestures using the conventional labeling method.