A Spatial Feature Extraction Method for Enhancing Upper Limb Motion Intent Prediction in EMG-PR System

High-Density Surface Electromyography (HD-sEMG) enriches motion intention pattern recognition systems by providing more spatial information. Multichannel linear descriptors (MLD) could provide a comprehensive description of the overall state characteristics within the muscle regions. In this study, an MLD-based spatial feature extraction method was proposed to capture differences and correlations in various muscle regions during movement, ultimately enhancing the system's classification accuracy. The performance of the feature extraction method was compared with traditional time domain feature extraction method under various classifiers and different movement types. The results show that employing the proposed method with the spatial features improves the classification error rates of combined movements from 11.14% to 7.28%, and better adaptability for all classifiers utilized in this study, which shows the effect of utilization of spatial information in different muscle regions.