Artificial Neural Network-Based Activities Classification, Gait Phase Estimation, and Prediction

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2023

Abstract

Gait patterns are critical to health monitoring, gait impairment assessment, and wearable device control. Unrhythmic gait pattern detection under community-based conditions is a new frontier in this area. The present paper describes a high-accuracy gait phase estimation and prediction algorithm built on a two-stage artificial neural network. This work targets to develop an algorithm that can estimate and predict the gait cycle in real time using a portable controller with only two IMU sensors (one on each thigh) in the community setting. Our algorithm can detect the gait phase in unrhythmic conditions during walking, stair ascending, and stair descending, and classify these activities with standing. Moreover, our algorithm is able to predict both future intra- and inter-stride gait phases, offering a potential means to improve wearable device controller performance. The proposed data-driven algorithm is based on a dataset consisting of 5 able-bodied subjects and validated on 3 different able-bodied subjects. Under unrhythmic activity situations, validation shows that the algorithm can accurately identify multiple activities with 99.55% accuracy, and estimate (rRMSE : 6.3%) and predict 200-ms-ahead (rRMSE 200 ms: 8.6%) the gait phase percentage in real time, which are on average 57.7 and 54.0% smaller than the error from the event-based method in the same conditions. This study showcases a solution to estimate and predict gait status for multiple unrhythmic activities, which may be deployed to controllers for wearable robots or health monitoring devices.

Identifier

85146601887 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-023-03151-y

e-ISSN

15739686

ISSN

00906964

PubMed ID

36681749

First Page

1471

Last Page

1484

Issue

7

Volume

51

Grant

2026622

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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