Paper Info
Title
Extrinsic finger and thumb muscles command a virtual hand to allow individual finger and grasp control.
Abstract
Fine-wire intramuscular electrodes were used to obtain electromyogram (EMG) signals from six extrinsic hand muscles associated with the thumb, index, and middle fingers. Subjects' EMG activity was used to control a virtual three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) hand as they conformed the hand to a sequence of hand postures testing two controllers: direct EMG control and pattern recognition control. Subjects tested two conditions using each controller: starting the hand from a predefined neutral posture before each new posture and starting the hand from the previous posture in the sequence. Subjects demonstrated their abilities to simultaneously, yet individually, move all three DOFs during the direct EMG control trials; however, results showed subjects did not often utilize this feature. Performance metrics such as failure rate and completion time showed no significant difference between the two controllers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TBME.2014.2344854
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
grasp control,medical control systems,virtual three-degree-of-freedom hand,pattern recognition,extrinsic thumb muscle command,predefined neutral posture,biomedical electrodes,fine-wire intramuscular electrodes,pattern recognition control,finger control,controllers,electromyogram signals,prosthetics,artificial hand,extrinsic finger muscle command,electromyography,direct emg control trials,electromyogram (emg),hand control
Journal
62
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1558-2531
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Alexander Birdwell120.46
Levi J Hargrove243842.47
Richard F. F. Weir3537.12
Todd A. Kuiken440.98