Reconstruction of angular kinematics from wrist-worn inertial sensor data for smart home healthcare

Villeneuve, E., Harwin, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3928-3381, Holderbaum, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1677-9624, Janko, B. and Sherratt, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-4445 (2017) Reconstruction of angular kinematics from wrist-worn inertial sensor data for smart home healthcare. IEEE Access, 5. pp. 2351-2363. ISSN 2169-3536 doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2640559

Abstract/Summary

This article tackles the problem of the estimation of simplified human limb kinematics for home health care. Angular kinematics are widely used for gait analysis, for rehabilitation and more generally for activity recognition. Residential monitoring requires particular sensor constraints to enable long-term user compliance. The proposed strategy is based on measurements from two low-power accelerometers placed only on the forearm, which makes it an ill-posed problem. The system is considered in a Bayesian framework, with a linear-Gaussian transition model with hard boundaries and a nonlinear-Gaussian observation model. The state vector and associated covariance are estimated by a post-Regularized Particle Filter (Constrained-Extended-RPF or C-ERPF), with an importance function whose moments are computed via an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) linearization. Several sensor configurations are compared in terms of estimation performance, as well as power consumption and user acceptance. The proposed CERPF is compared to other methods (EKF, Constrained-EKF and ERPF without transition constraints) on the basis of simulations and experimental measurements with motion capture reference. The proposed C-ERPF method coupled with two accelerometers on the wrist provides promising results with 19% error in average on both angles, compared to the motion capture reference, 10% on velocities and 7% on accelerations. This comparison highlights that arm kinematics can be estimated from only two accelerometers on the wrist. Such a system is a crucial step toward enabling machine monitoring of users health and activity on a daily basis.

Additional Information	Special Section on Advances of Multisensory Services and Technologies for Healthcare in Smart Cities
Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/68412
Identification Number/DOI	10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2640559
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Biomedical Sciences Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
Additional Information	Special Section on Advances of Multisensory Services and Technologies for Healthcare in Smart Cities
Publisher	IEEE
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