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© 2001-2012 IEEE.Real time identification of gait events is a mandatory condition for adaptive or patient-tailored control of robotic devices during gait therapy. Despite most of the studies in the literature have reported high accuracy in the identification of gait phases for healthy subjects, most of them were not tested on impaired subjects and/or are not suitable for real-time implementations. In this paper, we evaluated the feasibility of some of the most known algorithms for identification of gait events. We propose a novel algorithm that exploits the advantages of the different approaches used for detection of gait events. We built a wearable sensor device with a single IMU placed back of the heel. Three subjects (a healthy subject, a hemiparetic and a myelopathic) worn the devices and performed an experimental protocol with overground and treadmill walking trials. Algorithms showed a high performance for healthy gait and their suitability for real-time implementations. However, none of the algorithms in the literature could maintain high accuracy during hemiparetic or myelopathic gait. Our algorithm obtained high accuracy for the three subjects: healthy (F1-score: 0.99), hemiparetic (0.97) and myelopathic (0.96). We aim to implement our proposal as part of the control loop of a robot during robotic gait therapy.
Author(s): Perez-Ibarra JC, Siqueira AAG, Krebs HI
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB2018)
Year of Conference: 2020
Pages: 2616-2624
Print publication date: 01/03/2020
Online publication date: 05/02/2020
Acceptance date: 22/10/2019
ISSN: 1558-1748
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2951923
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2951923
Series Title: IEEE Sensors Journal
