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Main Authors: Basak, Shubhranil, Hemanth, Mada, Rao, Madhav
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17200
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author Basak, Shubhranil
Hemanth, Mada
Rao, Madhav
author_facet Basak, Shubhranil
Hemanth, Mada
Rao, Madhav
contents Surface Electromyography (sEMG) provides vital insights into muscle function, but it can be noisy and challenging to acquire. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) provide a robust and wearable alternative to motion capture systems. This paper investigates the synthesis of normalized sEMG signals from 6-axis IMU data using a deep learning approach. We collected simultaneous sEMG and IMU data sampled at 1~KHz for various arm movements. A Sliding-Window-Wave-Net model, based on dilated causal convolutions, was trained to map the IMU data to the sEMG signal. The results show that the model successfully predicts the timing and general shape of muscle activations. Although peak amplitudes were often underestimated, the high temporal fidelity demonstrates the feasibility of using this method for muscle intent detection in applications such as prosthetics and rehabilitation biofeedback.
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spellingShingle Reconstruction of Surface EMG Signal using IMU data for Upper Limb Actions
Basak, Shubhranil
Hemanth, Mada
Rao, Madhav
Machine Learning
Surface Electromyography (sEMG) provides vital insights into muscle function, but it can be noisy and challenging to acquire. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) provide a robust and wearable alternative to motion capture systems. This paper investigates the synthesis of normalized sEMG signals from 6-axis IMU data using a deep learning approach. We collected simultaneous sEMG and IMU data sampled at 1~KHz for various arm movements. A Sliding-Window-Wave-Net model, based on dilated causal convolutions, was trained to map the IMU data to the sEMG signal. The results show that the model successfully predicts the timing and general shape of muscle activations. Although peak amplitudes were often underestimated, the high temporal fidelity demonstrates the feasibility of using this method for muscle intent detection in applications such as prosthetics and rehabilitation biofeedback.
title Reconstruction of Surface EMG Signal using IMU data for Upper Limb Actions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17200