scholarly journals A Novel Surface Electromyographic Signal-Based Hand Gesture Prediction Using a Recurrent Neural Network

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 3994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
Changxin He ◽  
Kuo Yang

Surface electromyographic signal (sEMG) is a kind of bioelectrical signal, which records the data of muscle activity intensity. Most sEMG-based hand gesture recognition, which uses machine learning as the classifier, depends on feature extraction of sEMG data. Recently, a deep leaning-based approach such as recurrent neural network (RNN) has provided a choice to automatically learn features from raw data. This paper presents a novel hand gesture prediction method by using an RNN model to learn from raw sEMG data and predict gestures. The sEMG signals of 21 short-term hand gestures of 13 subjects were recorded with a Myo armband, which is a non-intrusive, low cost, commercial portable device. At the start of the gesture, the trained model outputs an instantaneous prediction for the sEMG data. Experimental results showed that the more time steps of data that were known, the higher instantaneous prediction accuracy the proposed model gave. The predicted accuracy reached about 89.6% when the data of 40-time steps (200 ms) were used to predict hand gesture. This means that the gesture could be predicted with a delay of 200 ms after the hand starts to perform the gesture, instead of waiting for the end of the gesture.

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1715
Author(s):  
Michele Alessandrini ◽  
Giorgio Biagetti ◽  
Paolo Crippa ◽  
Laura Falaschetti ◽  
Claudio Turchetti

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a common and practical technique to detect human activity and other physiological parameters and is commonly implemented in wearable devices. However, the PPG signal is often severely corrupted by motion artifacts. The aim of this paper is to address the human activity recognition (HAR) task directly on the device, implementing a recurrent neural network (RNN) in a low cost, low power microcontroller, ensuring the required performance in terms of accuracy and low complexity. To reach this goal, (i) we first develop an RNN, which integrates PPG and tri-axial accelerometer data, where these data can be used to compensate motion artifacts in PPG in order to accurately detect human activity; (ii) then, we port the RNN to an embedded device, Cloud-JAM L4, based on an STM32 microcontroller, optimizing it to maintain an accuracy of over 95% while requiring modest computational power and memory resources. The experimental results show that such a system can be effectively implemented on a constrained-resource system, allowing the design of a fully autonomous wearable embedded system for human activity recognition and logging.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianlei Zhang ◽  
Yukun Zeng ◽  
Binil Starly

AbstractData-driven approaches for machine tool wear diagnosis and prognosis are gaining attention in the past few years. The goal of our study is to advance the adaptability, flexibility, prediction performance, and prediction horizon for online monitoring and prediction. This paper proposes the use of a recent deep learning method, based on Gated Recurrent Neural Network architecture, including Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), which try to captures long-term dependencies than regular Recurrent Neural Network method for modeling sequential data, and also the mechanism to realize the online diagnosis and prognosis and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction with indirect measurement collected during the manufacturing process. Existing models are usually tool-specific and can hardly be generalized to other scenarios such as for different tools or operating environments. Different from current methods, the proposed model requires no prior knowledge about the system and thus can be generalized to different scenarios and machine tools. With inherent memory units, the proposed model can also capture long-term dependencies while learning from sequential data such as those collected by condition monitoring sensors, which means it can be accommodated to machine tools with varying life and increase the prediction performance. To prove the validity of the proposed approach, we conducted multiple experiments on a milling machine cutting tool and applied the model for online diagnosis and RUL prediction. Without loss of generality, we incorporate a system transition function and system observation function into the neural net and trained it with signal data from a minimally intrusive vibration sensor. The experiment results showed that our LSTM-based model achieved the best overall accuracy among other methods, with a minimal Mean Square Error (MSE) for tool wear prediction and RUL prediction respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2618-2625
Author(s):  
R. T. Subhalakshmi ◽  
S. Appavu Alias Balamurugan ◽  
S. Sasikala

In recent times, the COVID-19 epidemic turn out to be increased in an extreme manner, by the accessibility of an inadequate amount of rapid testing kits. Consequently, it is essential to develop the automated techniques for Covid-19 detection to recognize the existence of disease from the radiological images. The most ordinary symptoms of COVID-19 are sore throat, fever, and dry cough. Symptoms are able to progress to a rigorous type of pneumonia with serious impediment. As medical imaging is not recommended currently in Canada for crucial COVID-19 diagnosis, systems of computer-aided diagnosis might aid in early COVID-19 abnormalities detection and help out to observe the disease progression, reduce mortality rates potentially. In this approach, a deep learning based design for feature extraction and classification is employed for automatic COVID-19 diagnosis from computed tomography (CT) images. The proposed model operates on three main processes based pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification. The proposed design incorporates the fusion of deep features using GoogLe Net models. Finally, Multi-scale Recurrent Neural network (RNN) based classifier is applied for identifying and classifying the test CT images into distinct class labels. The experimental validation of the proposed model takes place using open-source COVID-CT dataset, which comprises a total of 760 CT images. The experimental outcome defined the superior performance with the maximum sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy.


IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 7303-7312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haihan Duan ◽  
Miao Huang ◽  
Yanbing Yang ◽  
Jie Hao ◽  
Liangyin Chen

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 1485-1500
Author(s):  
Jiaojiao Hu ◽  
Xiaofeng Wang ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Depeng Zhang ◽  
Meng Zhang ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 3421-3426
Author(s):  
D. Deva Hema ◽  
J. Tharun ◽  
G. Arun Dev ◽  
N. Sateesh

Our day-to-day activity is highly influenced by development of Internet. One of the rapid growing area in Internet is E-commerce. People are eager to buy products from online sites like Amazon, embay, Flipkart etc. Customers can write reviews about the products purchased online. The purchasing of good through online has been increasing exponentially since last few years. As there is no physical contact with goods before purchasing through online, people totally rely on reviews about the product before purchasing it. Hence review plays an important role in deciding the quality of the product. There are many customers who give online reviews about the product after using it. Hence the quality of the product is decided by the reviews of the customers. Thus, detection of fake reviews has become one of the important task. The proposed system will help in finding such fake reviews about the product, so that the fake reviews can be eliminated. Therefore, the purchasing of the products will be totally based on the genuine reviews. The proposed system uses Deep Recurrent Neural Network (DRNN) to predict the fake reviews and the performance of the proposed method has compared with Naïve Bayes Algorithm. The proposed model shows good accuracy and can handle huge amount of data over the existing system.


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