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The classification task focuses on discrete motion recognition and shows poor real-time performance, while continuous joint angle estimation evaluates the real-time joint angles by the continuity of the limb. Few researchers have investigated continuous hand action prediction based on hand motion continuity. In our study, we propose the key state transition as a condition for continuous hand action prediction and simulate the prediction process using a sliding window with long-term memory. Firstly, the key state modeled by GMM-HMMs is set as the condition. Then, the sliding window is used to dynamically look for the key state transition. The prediction results are given while finding the key state transition. To extend continuous multigesture action prediction, we use model pruning to improve reusability. Eight subjects participated in the experiment, and the results show that the average accuracy of continuous two-hand actions is 97% with a 70 ms time delay, which is better than LSTM (94.15%, 308 ms) and GRU (93.83%, 300 ms). In supplementary experiments with continuous four-hand actions, over 85% prediction accuracy is achieved with an average time delay of 90 ms.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22249949","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,19]],"date-time":"2022-12-19T09:31:01Z","timestamp":1671442261000},"page":"9949","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["sEMG-Based Continuous Hand Action Prediction by Using Key State Transition and Model Pruning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8756-0267","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaikui","family":"Zheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Advanced Manufacturing, Fuzhou University, Quanzhou 362200, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuai","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Advanced Manufacturing, Fuzhou University, Quanzhou 362200, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinxing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quanzhou 362216, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Metwalli","family":"Al-Selwi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quanzhou 362216, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quanzhou 362216, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"102074","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bspc.2020.102074","article-title":"A review of the key technologies for sEMG-based human-robot interaction systems","volume":"62","author":"Li","year":"2020","journal-title":"Biomed. 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