Estimation of Stride Time Variability in Unobtrusive Long-Term Monitoring Using Inertial Measurement Sensors
- 4 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Vol. 24 (7), 1
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2020.2992448
Abstract
Stride time variability is an important indicator for the assessment of gait stability. An accurate extraction of the stride intervals is essential for determining stride time variability. Peak detection is a commonly used method for gait segmentation and stride time estimation. Standard peak detection algorithms often fail due to additional movement components and measurement noise. A novel algorithm for robust peak detection in inertial sensor signals was proposed in a previous contribution. In this work, we present a novel approach for estimation of stride time variability based on the formerly proposed peak detection algorithm applied to an unobtrusive sensor setup for motion monitoring. The unobtrusive sensor setup includes a wrist sensor, a pocket or belt sensor, and a necklace sensor, all equipped with both accelerometer and gyroscope. The goal of this work is to implement a generalized approach for accurate and robust stride interval determining algorithm for different sensor locations. Therefore, treadmill and level ground walking experiments were conducted with ten healthy subjects at increasing walking speeds and an age-simulating suit. With the proposed algorithm, we achieved a RMSE of 0.07 s for the stride interval estimation during treadmill walking experiments. The results give promising indications that detection of variation of stride time variability is possible using the proposed unobtrusive sensor setup.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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