Characterizing human grasping movements by means of an acceleration sensor

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Del Campo;Miguel Carrasco

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Diego Portales, School of Information Engineering, Santiago, Chile;Universidad Diego Portales, School of Information Engineering, Santiago, Chile

  • Venue:
  • ACC'11/MMACTEE'11 Proceedings of the 13th IASME/WSEAS international conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering conference on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A majority of systems that take advantage of human motion in order to recognize gestures are developed through temporal image processing algorithms. However, thanks to the increasing development of acceleration sensors in recent years, it has become possible to use actual arm movements as an acquisition system. This feature could be used in more intuitive systems to communicate reach-to-grasp movements. This research proposes placing an accelerometer on a user's arm to recognize grasping movements in an unique way. The most complex part of this problem revolves around the fact that an accelerometer is unable to evaluate whether a user is performing an reach-to-grasp movement. Given that the movement involves a temporary action, it is possible to use a hidden Markov system to dynamically predict user grasping movements. The results indicate that the model can correctly predict all movements with an F-score = 99% on average.