Task-Oriented Muscle Synergy Extraction Using An Autoencoder-Based Neural Model

被引:13
作者
Buongiorno, Domenico [1 ,2 ]
Cascarano, Giacomo Donato [1 ,2 ]
Camardella, Cristian [3 ]
De Feudis, Irio [1 ,2 ]
Frisoli, Antonio [3 ]
Bevilacqua, Vitoantonio [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Polytech Univ Bari, Dept Elect & Informat Engn, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[2] Apulian Bioengn Srl, Via Violette 14, I-70026 Modugno, BA, Italy
[3] Scuola Super Sant Anna, Percro Lab, Tecip Inst, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
关键词
autoencoder; EMG signals; muscle synergies; robotics; exoskeleton; motor intention detection; movement classification; JOINT MOMENTS; OF-FREEDOM; EMG; MOVEMENTS; FORCE; IDENTIFICATION; ALGORITHMS; ROBUST;
D O I
10.3390/info11040219
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
The growing interest in wearable robots opens the challenge for developing intuitive and natural control strategies. Among several human-machine interaction approaches, myoelectric control consists of decoding the motor intention from muscular activity (or EMG signals) with the aim of driving prosthetic or assistive robotic devices accordingly, thus establishing an intimate human-machine connection. In this scenario, bio-inspired approaches, e.g., synergy-based controllers, are revealed to be the most robust. However, synergy-based myo-controllers already proposed in the literature consider muscle patterns that are computed considering only the total variance reconstruction rate of the EMG signals, without taking into account the performance of the controller in the task (or application) space. In this work, extending a previous study, the authors presented an autoencoder-based neural model able to extract muscles synergies for motion intention detection while optimizing the task performance in terms of force/moment reconstruction. The proposed neural topology has been validated with EMG signals acquired from the main upper limb muscles during planar isometric reaching tasks performed in a virtual environment while wearing an exoskeleton. The presented model has been compared with the non-negative matrix factorization algorithm (i.e., the most used approach in the literature) in terms of muscle synergy extraction quality, and with three techniques already presented in the literature in terms of goodness of shoulder and elbow predicted moments. The results of the experimental comparisons have showed that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-art synergy-based joint moment estimators at the expense of the quality of the EMG signals reconstruction. These findings demonstrate that a trade-off, between the capability of the extracted muscle synergies to better describe the EMG signals variability and the task performance in terms of force reconstruction, can be achieved. The results of this study might open new horizons on synergies extraction methodologies, optimized synergy-based myo-controllers and, perhaps, reveals useful hints about their origin.
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