Computational prediction of subjective sense of force based on muscle activation estimation

Abstract

We feel effort during the grasp and manipulation of the objects. It is known that muscle activity correlates with the subjective effort. Knowing the muscle activity is useful to predict one's subjective sense. We make a hypothesis the subjective sense of force changes according to the amount of the muscle activity. In this paper, we propose a computational prediction method of subjective sense of force based on the estimation of muscle activity.