Abstract
Hand gesture recognition is a popular topic of many research studies, and force myography (FMG) has recently emerged for this application. This work investigates a novel sensor system based on electrical resistance strain gages that is fully wearable and easy-to-use. This system consists of eight strain gages embedded in a transparent flexible plastic band, covering the entire wrist. The system was tested with 8 subjects by performing 14 different hand gestures, with an accuracy of 99.2% using support vector machine. The impressive accuracy of the wearable band confirms the capability of strain gages as pressure sensors in force myography in hand gesture recognition applications.
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Ng, H.W., Jiang, X., Merhi, LK., Menon, C. (2017). Investigation of the Feasibility of Strain Gages as Pressure Sensors for Force Myography. In: Rojas, I., Ortuño, F. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56148-6_22
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