Robotic grasping ability lags far behind human skills and poses a significant challenge in the robotics research area. According to the grasping part of an object, humans can select the appropriate grasping postures of their fingers. When humans gras...
This paper focuses on the teleoperation of a robot hand on the basis of finger position recognition and grasp type estimation. For the finger position recognition, we propose a new method that fuses machine learning and high-speed image-processing te...
Classification and regression employing a simple Deep Neural Network (DNN) are investigated to perform touch localization on a tactile surface using ultrasonic guided waves. A robotic finger first simulates the touch action and captures the data to t...
Recent development of surface electromyogram (sEMG) decomposition technique provides a good basis of decoding movements from individual motor unit (MU) activities that directly representing microscopic neural drives. How to interpret the function and...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Mar 14, 2022
In this study, a three-dimensional (3D) printed soft robotic hand with embedded soft sensors, intended for prosthetic applications is designed and developed to efficiently operate with new-generation myoelectric control systems, e.g., pattern recogni...
BACKGROUND: Robust and continuous neural decoding is crucial for reliable and intuitive neural-machine interactions. This study developed a novel generic neural network model that can continuously predict finger forces based on decoded populational m...
The development of highly compliant materials and actuators has enabled the design of soft robots that can be applied in rescue operations, in secure human-robot interactions, to manipulate fragile devices or objects, and for robot locomotion within ...
Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and variable workspace for robust and versatile manipulations. This article pres...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jan 28, 2022
Hand gesture recognition with surface electromyography (sEMG) is indispensable for Muscle-Gesture-Computer Interface. The usual focus of it is upon performance evaluation involving the accuracy and robustness of hand gesture recognition. However, add...
Corticokinematic coherence (CKC) between magnetoencephalographic and movement signals using an accelerometer is useful for the functional localization of the primary sensorimotor cortex (SM1). However, it is difficult to determine the tongue CKC beca...
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