title: Experiences in the creation of an electromyography database to help hand amputated persons.
abstract: Currently, trans-radial amputees can only perform a few simple movements with prosthetic hands. This is mainly due to low control capabilities and the long training time that is required to learn controlling them with surface electromyography (sEMG). This is in contrast with recent advances in mechatronics, thanks to which mechanical hands have multiple degrees of freedom and in some cases force control. To help improve the situation, we are building the NinaPro (Non-Invasive Adaptive Prosthetics) database, a database of about 50 hand and wrist movements recorded from several healthy and currently very few amputated persons that will help the community to test and improve sEMG-based natural control systems for prosthetic hands. In this paper we describe the experimental experiences and practical aspects related to the data acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Business Information Systems, HES- SO Valais, Sierre, Switzerland. manfredo.atzori@hevs.ch
authors.forename: Manfredo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Atzori
authors.forename: Arjan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gijsberts
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heynen
authors.forename: Anne-Gabrielle Mittaz
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Hager
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Castellimi
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Caputo
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000674:Amputees / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004576:Electromyography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006225:Hand / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014953:Wrist / Q000503:physiopathology*