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Sensors and Materials, Volume 31, Number 9(3) (2019)
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pp. 2931-2946
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https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2019.2444
Published: September 30, 2019

Method of Finger Motion Recognition Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Sensor Array [PDF]

Yaohui Hu, Lingrui Xie, Yadong Chen, Ke He, Yong Fang, Wuwei Kang, Zixian Yao, and Guoqing Fang

(Received May 25, 2019; Accepted August 26, 2019)

Keywords: finger motion recognition, PVDF sensor array, wearable wrist device, eigenvectors

Finger motion recognition is one of the key technologies of human–computer interaction based on gestures. In this paper, we propose a method of recognizing finger motions by using a wearable wrist device (WWD). This method not only avoids the problem that the user’s hands are limited by wearing motion detection sensors, but also avoids the problem that vision-sensorbased gesture recognition technology is difficult to use in a mobile environment. Moreover, this method, which uses polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensors as the detection units of WWD, has the advantages of being noninvasive, comfortable, and convenient. In this work, we first studied the distribution and optimization of the PVDF sensor array, and used this array to complete the acquisition of wrist motion signals. Then, we used short-term energy to solve the problems of the real-time detection of motion signals’ endpoints and the extraction of motion signal fragments. Then, we encoded these fragments into 64-digit eigenvectors for finger motion recognition. In the experiment, we transmitted the eigenvectors as input values into a four-layer BP network to recognize three essential finger motions for mouse control. The experimental results show that the recognition effect of this method is satisfactory and the recognition accuracy is up to 96.7%.

Corresponding author: Yong Fang


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Yaohui Hu, Lingrui Xie, Yadong Chen, Ke He, Yong Fang, Wuwei Kang, Zixian Yao, and Guoqing Fang, Method of Finger Motion Recognition Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Sensor Array, Sens. Mater., Vol. 31, No. 9, 2019, p. 2931-2946.



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