Open AccessA Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Estimation of Elbow Flexion Force via Electromyography
Author(s) -
Wei Lu,
Lifu Gao,
Qianqian Zhang,
Zebin Li
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1883/1/012164
Subject(s) - computer science , artificial intelligence , convolutional neural network , electromyography , elbow , feature extraction , generalization , artificial neural network , pattern recognition (psychology) , feature (linguistics) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , mathematics , medicine , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , surgery
Real-time and accurate estimation is beneficial for intention recognition, muscle rehabilitation evaluation and artificial limb control. However, it is difficult to estimate the elbow flexion force accurately. The aim of our model is to estimate elbow flexion muscle force, which can be used for elbow joint health assessment and prosthetic control studies. This paper proposed an end-to-end deep learning framework by fusing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) neural network with attention mechanism, which is more suitable for time series EMG signal to improve the feature extraction ability and achieve a high flexion force estimation accuracy. Experimental results indicated that the proposed method can automatically extract the proper features of elbow motion behaviors without professional knowledge in feature extraction model. Moreover, the experimental result shows that the proposed framework performs well in the accuracy and generalization ability, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods.