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Machine-Learning-Based Muscle Control of a 3D-Printed Bionic Arm

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Abstract

In this paper, a customizable wearable 3D-printed bionic arm is designed, fabricated, and optimized for a right arm amputee. An experimental test has been conducted for the user, where control of the artificial bionic hand is accomplished successfully using surface electromyography (sEMG) signals acquired by a multi-channel wearable armband. The 3D-printed bionic arm was designed for the low cost of 295 USD, and was lightweight at 428 g. To facilitate a generic control of the bionic arm, sEMG data were collected for a set of gestures (fist, spread fingers, wave-in, wave-out) from a wide range of participants. The collected data were processed and features related to the gestures were extracted for the purpose of training a classifier. In this study, several classifiers based on neural networks, support vector machine, and decision trees were constructed, trained, and statistically compared. The support vector machine classifier was found to exhibit an 89.93% success rate. Real-time testing of the bionic arm with the optimum classifier is demonstrated.

Bibliographic details

Published
2020-06-02
Journal/source
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI
10.3390/s20113144
Type
journal-article
Language
en
Volume / issue
20 / 11
Pages
3144
ISSN
1424-8220

Access and metrics

Open access
Yes
OA status
gold
License
cc-by
Version
publishedVersion
Cited by
47
References
36
Retracted
No

Authors and affiliations

  1. Sherif SaidCorresponding authorUniversité Paris-Est Créteil · Paris-Est Sup · American University of the Middle East
  2. Ilyes BoulkaibetAmerican University of the Middle East
  3. M. SheikhAmerican University of the Middle East
  4. Abdullah S. KararAmerican University of the Middle East
  5. Samer Al KorkAmerican University of the Middle East
  6. Amine Naït‐AliUniversité Paris-Est Créteil · Paris-Est Sup

Topics and keywords

Muscle activation and electromyography studiesAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsTactile and Sensory InteractionsClassifier (UML)Wearable computerArtificial intelligenceSupport vector machineRobotic arm3d printedGestureArtificial neural networkFistEngineeringComputer sciencePattern recognition (psychology)