Human Gait Phase Recognition in Embedded Sensor System

Sammanfattning: Gait analysis can improve our understanding of gait to improve medical diagnosis or treatment in clinical assessment. Studying the gait cycle in an embedded sensor system is essential for the detection of any abnormal walking pattern. This project aims to investigate several methods for gait phase recognition on embedded systems based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Long short term memory (LSTM). This project proposes three methods, single HMM, multiple HMMs, and LSTM models, to identify the phase number in one gait. Single HMM has been constructed with the unit of gait via HMM learning. The corresponding phase number in the hidden state sequence can be selected for the observations via HMM decoding. Multiple HMMs have been constructed with the unit of phase instead of gait via HMM learning. The HMM evaluation can select the corresponding phase number in the hidden state sequence with the largest log- likelihood. Frame blocking and windowing function is also applied to evaluate these two methods. Estimation, validation, and forecast are implemented in the LSTM method as a benchmark. After comparing and evaluating the three methods for phase inference in terms of execution time, accuracy, and limitations, the method with multiple HMMs can provide satisfactory accuracy of gait phase number recognition in a relatively short time. It can be concluded that the multiple HMMs method may be more suitable for application in this phase inference scenario on the embedded sensor processing systems if the timing requirement is not so stringent.