Review on real-time EMG acquisition and hand gesture recognition system

Abstract

A large number of impairments and disabilities in human body is increasing day by day. So to improve the quality of life of disabled people researchers think on the necessity of simple and natural human-machine control interface. For the human-machine interface various biomedical signals acquired from a specialized tissue, organ or cell system like the nervous system. Bio signal like EMG signal is used in various applications including identifying neuromuscular diseases, control signal for prosthetic devices, controlling machines, robots etc. EMG based hand gesture can help to develop good human-machine interface. This present an embedded solution for real-time EMG based hand gesture recognition. It involves acquisition of EMG signal, hand gesture recognition and controlling. EMG based hand gesture recognition is easy to build and a low cost system.