arXiv:2606.04776cs.RO2026-06

用肌电控制柔性外骨骼,实现轻松捏握,减轻手部用力。

SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping

论文配图:SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping
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  • 通过肌电信号解码动作意图,驱动柔性外骨骼实时辅助
  • 在最大负载下捏力减少92.6%,肌电信号识别准确率达99.4%
  • 适合需要手部助力的康复或辅助场景,如中风患者

表面肌电(sEMG)为检测手部运动意图和控制可穿戴辅助设备提供了一种非侵入式接口。然而,由于噪声、运动伪影、电极位置、肌肉疲劳及个体差异,可靠的肌电驱动手部辅助仍具挑战性。同时,许多手部外骨骼机械结构僵硬或笨重,限制了舒适性和自然运动。本文提出SoftPINCH,一种基于肌电驱动的柔性可穿戴外骨骼,用于拇指与食指屈曲及捏握辅助。系统结合腱驱动柔性外骨骼、指尖磁接触传感与神经网络肌电解码,实现意图驱动的辅助。从前臂肌肉记录肌电信号,评估三种无主体依赖的解码架构:LSTM、CNN+LSTM与带注意力机制的CNN+LSTM。CNN+LSTM与带注意力的模型在留一法测试中均达到99.4%准确率,优于独立的LSTM(97.8%)。但注意力机制未带来显著提升,表明卷积网络特征提取已足够稳健。因此选用CNN+LSTM部署于实时系统,因其高精度且结构更简单。功能评估显示,主动辅助显著降低孤立指屈与物体抓握时的肌肉负荷;在负重抓握中,所有负载下均减少肌力,最高负载下减少92.6%。结果表明SoftPINCH在实时肌电驱动柔性机器人控制下具备直观、低耗的捏握辅助潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides a non-invasive interface for detecting hand-movement intention and controlling wearable assistive devices. However, reliable EMG-driven hand assistance remains challenging because EMG signals are affected by noise, motion artifacts, electrode placement, muscle fatigue, and inter-subject variability. At the same time, many hand exoskeletons remain mechanically restrictive or bulky, limiting comfort and natural hand motion. This work presents SoftPINCH, an EMG-driven soft wearable exoskeleton for thumb-index finger flexion and pinch grasp assistance. The system combines a tendon-driven soft exoskeleton, fingertip magnetic contact sensing, and neural EMG decoding for intention-based assistance. Surface EMG was recorded from forearm muscles during index and thumb movements, and three subject-independent decoding architectures were evaluated: LSTM, CNN+LSTM, and CNN+LSTM with attention. The CNN+LSTM and CNN+LSTM-attention models both achieved 99.4% LOSO test accuracy, outperforming the standalone LSTM, which reached 97.8%. However, the attention mechanism did not provide a significant improvement over CNN+LSTM, indicating that CNN-based feature extraction was sufficient for robust EMG representation. The CNN+LSTM model was therefore selected for real-time deployment due to its high accuracy and lower architectural complexity. Functional evaluation showed that active exoskeleton assistance reduced muscular effort during isolated finger flexion and object grasping. During weighted grasping, assistance reduced muscular effort across all tested loads, with a 92.6% reduction at the highest load. These results demonstrate the potential of SoftPINCH for intuitive, low-effort pinch assistance using real-time EMG-driven soft robotic control.

柔性外骨骼肌电控制手部辅助实时解码

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