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Dynamic Human Gait VGRF Reference Profile Generation via Extreme Learning Machine


Abstract:

Vertical Ground Reaction Forces (VGRF) reference profiles of human gait are important in medicine, for the recognition of gait disorders and in the assessment of rehabili...Show More

Abstract:

Vertical Ground Reaction Forces (VGRF) reference profiles of human gait are important in medicine, for the recognition of gait disorders and in the assessment of rehabilitation treatments. A walking human is a dynamic varying system and in spite of the VGRF reference dependence on several patient's variables, doctors traditionally use the same static reference for all patients. The purpose of this study is to find out if an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is adequate to generate the dynamic VGRF reference profiles of healthy people depending on the subject's age, weight, height and stride duration. The ELM is compared with two other baseline Computational Intelligence (CI) methods, the Backpropagation Neural Network (BNN) and Multioutput Support Vector Regression (MSVR). Data from 28 healthy males walking at five different stride durations, collected using instrumented shoes, were used to train and test the CI models. The results showed that ELM is a well suited method to generate the dynamic VGRF reference profile for both dominant and non-dominant limbs, showing the lowest root mean square errors for the test set, 0.0201 and 0.0243 (fraction of body weight) for the dominant and non-dominant limbs respectively. This study reveals a promising methodology that can be implemented in real time gait analysis, allowing doctors to find a specific reference gait pattern for the gait analysis of an unhealthy person by specifying the age, weight, height and stride duration.
Date of Conference: 08-13 July 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 14 October 2018
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 2161-4407
Conference Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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