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ArticleFrontiers in neurorobotics2024

Posture-invariant myoelectric control with self-calibrating random forests.

Xinyu Jiang, Chenfei Ma, Kianoush Nazarpour

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Xinyu JiangSchool of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Chenfei MaSchool of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Kianoush NazarpourSchool of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Introduction: Myoelectric control systems translate different patterns of electromyographic (EMG) signals into the control commands of diverse human-machine interfaces via hand gesture recognition, enabling intuitive control of prosthesis and immersive interactions in the metaverse. The effect of arm position is a confounding factor leading to the variability of EMG characteristics. Developing a model with its characteristics and performance invariant across postures, could largely promote the translation of myoelectric control into real world practice. Methods: Here we propose a self-calibrating random forest (RF) model which can (1) be pre-trained on data from many users, then one-shot calibrated on a new user and (2) self-calibrate in an unsupervised and autonomous way to adapt to varying arm positions. Results: Analyses on data from 86 participants (66 for pre-training and 20 in real-time evaluation experiments) demonstrate the high generalisability of the proposed RF architecture to varying arm positions. Discussion: Our work promotes the use of simple, explainable, efficient and parallelisable model for posture-invariant myoelectric control.

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arm positionEMGmyoelectric controlself-calibrationtransfer learning

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PMCPMC11652494

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