Objective To realize the continuous hand gesture recognition using surface electromyography(sEMG). Methods A method for continuous hand gesture recognition based on an empirical formula is proposed. This method consists of three steps. First,a formula to describe the probability of testing samples belonging to each hand gesture class is derived from the hand gesture features. Next,the empirical coefficients for the formula are determined by a data processing experiment. Finally,the performance of sEMG classification based on the proposed empirical formula is quantified via the experiment on continuous hand gesture recognition. Results The empirical coefficients for the formula are able to be determined by experimental method effectively,and promising results on the EMG-based continuous hand gesture recognition can be achieved through the proposed empirical formula. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of applying such empirical formula on sEMG-based hand gesture recognition. Conclusions The proposed method using empirical formula provides a practical solution to sEMG-based real-time continuous hand gesture recognition.
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