RT Book, Section T1 EMG Discrete Classification Towards a Myoelectric Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton in Motor Rehabilitation A1 Irastorza-Landa, N. A1 Sarasola-Sanz, A. A1 Shiman, F. A1 López-Larraz, E. A1 Klein, J. A1 Valencia, D. A1 Belloso, A. A1 Morin, F. O. A1 Birbaumer, N. A1 Ramos-Murguialday, A. AB Myoelectric control constitutes a promising interface for robot-aided motor rehabilitation therapies. The development of accurate classifiers and suitable training protocols for this purpose are still challenging. In this study, eight healthy participants underwent electromyography (EMG) recordings while they performed reaching movements in four directions and five different hand movements wearing an exoskeleton on their right upper-limb. We developed an offline classifier based on a back-propagation artificial neural network (ANN) trained with the waveform length as time-domain feature extracted from EMG signals to classify discrete movements. A maximum overall classification performance of 75.54% 5.17 and 67.37%. We demonstrated that similar or better classification results could be achieved using a small number of electrodes placed over the main muscles involved in the movement instead of a large set of electrodes. This work is a first step towards a discrete decoding-based myoelectric control for a motor rehabilitation exoskeleton. PB Springer International Publishing SN 2195-3562 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2439 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2439 LA eng NO Irastorza-Landa , N , Sarasola-Sanz , A , Shiman , F , López-Larraz , E , Klein , J , Valencia , D , Belloso , A , Morin , F O , Birbaumer , N & Ramos-Murguialday , A 2017 , EMG Discrete Classification Towards a Myoelectric Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton in Motor Rehabilitation . in Biosystems and Biorobotics . Biosystems and Biorobotics , vol. 15 , Springer International Publishing , pp. 159-163 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_29 NO Publisher Copyright: © 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. NO This study was funded by the GRUENS, the NSFC 31450110072, the DFG-Koselleck and the BMBF MOTOR-BIC (FKZ 13GW0053). A. Sarasola-Sanz’s work is supported by the DAAD and N. Irastorza-Landa’s work by the Basque Government. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 26 jul 2024