Recognition of Walking Activity and Prediction of Gait Periods with a CNN and First-Order MC Strategy

Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Adrian Rubio-Solis, Abbas A. Dehghani-Sanij

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Abstract

In this paper, a strategy for recognition of human walking activities and prediction of gait periods using wearable sensors is presented. First, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is developed for the recognition of three walking activities (level-ground walking, ramp ascent and descent) and recognition of gait periods. Second, a first-order Markov Chain (MC) is employed for the prediction of gait periods, based on the observation of decisions made by the CNN for each walking activity. The validation of the proposed methods is performed using data from three inertial measurement units (IMU) attached to the lower limbs of participants. The results show that the CNN, together with the first-order MC, achieves mean accuracies of 100% and 98.32% for recognition of walking activities and gait periods, respectively. Prediction of gait periods are achieved with mean accuracies of 99.78%, 97.56% and 97.35% during level-ground walking, ramp ascent and descent, respectively. Overall, the benefits of our work for accurate recognition and prediction of walking activity and gait periods, make it a suitable high-level method for the development of intelligent assistive robots.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBIOROB 2018 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
PublisherIEEE
Pages897-902
Number of pages6
Volume2018-August
ISBN (Electronic)9781538681831
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Oct 2018
Event7th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BIOROB 2018 - Enschede, Netherlands
Duration: 26 Aug 201829 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB)
PublisherIEEE
Volume7
ISSN (Print)2155-1774
ISSN (Electronic)2155-1782

Conference

Conference7th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BIOROB 2018
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityEnschede
Period26/08/1829/08/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

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