Continuous Estimation of Finger and Wrist Joint Angles Using a Muscle Synergy Based Musculoskeletal Model

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  • Zixun He
    Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 152-8550, Japan
  • Zixuan Qin
    Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 152-8550, Japan
  • Yasuharu Koike
    Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 152-8550, Japan

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<jats:p>Recently, many muscle synergy-based human motion prediction models and algorithms have been proposed. In this study, the muscle synergies extracted from electromyography (EMG) data were used to construct a musculoskeletal model (MSM) to predict the joint angles of the wrist, thumb, index finger, and middle finger. EMG signals were analyzed using independent component analysis to reduce signal noise and task-irrelevant artifacts. The weights of each independent component (IC) were converted into a heat map related to the motion pattern and compared with human anatomy to find a different number of ICs matching the motion pattern. Based on the properties of the MSM, non-negative matrix factorization was used to extract muscle synergies from selected ICs that represent the extensor and flexor muscle groups. The effects of these choices on the prediction accuracy was also evaluated. The performance of the model was evaluated using the correlation coefficient (CC) and normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE). The proposed method has a higher prediction accuracy than those of traditional methods, with an average CC of 92.0% and an average NRMSE of 10.7%.</jats:p>

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