Because the single channel surface electromyographic （sEMG） signals easily caused a complex operation during the real-time operation, an intelligent wheelchair system based on sEMG and head gesture was proposed in t...Because the single channel surface electromyographic （sEMG） signals easily caused a complex operation during the real-time operation, an intelligent wheelchair system based on sEMG and head gesture was proposed in this paper. A distributed parallelly decision fusion algorithm fused classification results of the two signals to form a final judgment. After sEMG was decomposed by wavelet packet, feature information of some subspace was weaken, because subspace dimension was very large. To solve the problem, the paper proposed an improved wavelet packet decomposition algorithm, which extracted sample entropy from four subspaces of improved wavelet packet decomposition and took it as the feature information. Experimental results show that the intelligent wheelchair system based on sEMG and head gesture has not only a simple operation and shorter operating time, but also a better stability and security.展开更多
基金supported by the International Cooperation Project of Ministry of Science and Technology (2010DFA12160)
文摘Because the single channel surface electromyographic （sEMG） signals easily caused a complex operation during the real-time operation, an intelligent wheelchair system based on sEMG and head gesture was proposed in this paper. A distributed parallelly decision fusion algorithm fused classification results of the two signals to form a final judgment. After sEMG was decomposed by wavelet packet, feature information of some subspace was weaken, because subspace dimension was very large. To solve the problem, the paper proposed an improved wavelet packet decomposition algorithm, which extracted sample entropy from four subspaces of improved wavelet packet decomposition and took it as the feature information. Experimental results show that the intelligent wheelchair system based on sEMG and head gesture has not only a simple operation and shorter operating time, but also a better stability and security.
