Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2014, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (3): 98-105.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(14)60306-X

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Forehead sEMG signal based HMI for hands-free control

张毅, 祝翔, 代凌凌, 罗元   

  1. National Engineering Research and Development Center for Information Accessibility, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
  • Online:2014-06-30
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    This work was supported by the International Cooperation Project of Ministry of Science and Technology (2010DFA12160).

Abstract:

A hands-free method is proposed to control an electric powered wheelchair (EPW) based on surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. A CyberLink device is deployed to obtain and analyze forehead sEMG signals generated by the facial movements. The autoregressive (AR) model is used to extract sEMG features. Then, the back-propagation artificial neural network (BPANN) is proposed to recognize different facial movement patterns and improved by Bayesian regularization and Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm. A sEMG based human-machine interface (HMI) is designed to map facial movement patterns into corresponding control commands. The experimental results show that the method is simple, real-time and have a high recognition rate.

Key words:

intelligent wheelchair, sEMG, HMI, AR model, BP artificial neural network