A Novel Adaptive Mutation PSO Optimized SVM Algorithm for sEMG-Based Gesture Recognition

In the field of noncontact human-computer interaction, it is of crucial importance to distinguish different surface electromyography (sEMG) gestures accurately for intelligent prosthetic control. Gesture recognition based on low sampling frequency sEMG signal can extend the application of wearable low-cost EMG sensor (for example, MYO bracelet) in motion control. In this paper, a combination of sEMG gesture recognition consisting of feature extraction, genetic algorithm (GA), and support vector machine (SVM) model is proposed. Particularly, a novel adaptive mutation particle swarm optimization (AMPSO) algorithm is proposed to optimize the parameters of SVM; moreover, a new calculation method of mutation probability is also defined. The AMPSO-SVM model based on combination processing is successfully applied to MYO bracelet dataset, and four gesture classifications are carried out. Furthermore, AMPSO-SVM is compared with PSO-SVM, GS-SVM, and BP. The sEMG gesture recognition rate of AMPSO-SVM is 0.975, PSO-SVM is 0.9463, GS-SVM is 0.9093, and BP is 0.9019. The experimental results show that AMPSO-SVM is effective for low-frequency sEMG signals of different gestures.