Electromyography Feature Analysis to Recognize the Hand Motion in a Prosthetic Hand Design

Abstract

The increasing need for prosthetic hands for people with disabilities is one reason for innovation in the field of prosthetic hands to create the best prosthetic hand technology. In the design of EMG-based prosthetic hands, this is determined by several things, among others, the selection of features. The selection of the right features will determine the accuracy of the prosthetic hand Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analysis the time domain feature to obtain the best feature in classifying the hand motion. The contribution of this work is able to detect 4 movements in real time, namely hand close, flexion, extension, and relax. The Electromyograph signal is tapped using an electromyograph (EMG) dry electrode sensor in which there is a circuit of EMG instrumentation amplifier. Furthermore, the analog EMG signal data is processed through the ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) by using MCP3008 device. EMG signal data is processed in Raspberry Pi. A feature extraction process is applied to reduce data and determine the characteristics of each hand movement. Feature extraction used is MAV (mean absolute value), SSI (sign slope integral), VAR (variance), and RMS (root mean square). From the results of the four-time domain feature, then the best feature extraction is determined using scatter plot and Euclidean distance. The results that have been carried out on ten people with each person doing ten sets of movements (hand close, flexion, extension, relax), showing the best Euclidean distance results, is the RMS feature, with a value of 2608.07. This data is the result of the best feature extraction analysis through the method of calculating the distance of feature extraction data using Euclidean distance. This analysis of time domain feature is expected to be useful for further experiment in machine learning implementation so that it can be obtained an effective prosthetic hand.