A BERT Based Method for Continuous Estimation of Cross-Subject Hand Kinematics From Surface Electromyographic Signals

• Published in: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 31; pp. 87 - 96
• Main Authors: Lin, Chuang, Chen, Xingjian, Guo, Weiyu, Jiang, Ning, Farina, Dario, Su, Jingyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; BERT; Biomechanical Phenomena; Bit error rate; Coders; Convolution; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; cross-subjects; Electromyography; Electromyography - methods; Estimation; Feature extraction; Hand; hands kinematics; hard sample mining; Humans; Kinematics; Long short-term memory; Man-machine interfaces; Motion estimation; Movement; Performance evaluation; Performance measurement; sEMG; Transformers

Estimation of hand kinematics from surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals provides a non-invasive human-machine interface. This approach is usually subject-specific, so that the training on one individual does not generalise to different subjects. In this paper, we propose a method based on Bidire...