In most reported studies of EMG pattern recognition
systems for multifunctional prosthesis control, subjects
generally took a seated position with a tested arm resting
on a plate surface such as chair arm or table and multichannel
EMG signals were acquired with a number of
surface electrodes placed on either the muscles of forearm
and hand for an able-bodied subject or the residual
muscles for an upper-limb amputee. One portion of the
acquired EMG data was used to train a classifier and
then remaining portion was loaded into the trained classifier
for calculating the offline classification accuracy in