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A Gait Recognition System for Rehabilitation Based on Wearable Micro Inertial Measurement Unit

Zhi Li, Guanglie Zhang*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

Gait recognition and analysis is one of the most important biometric methods for medical treatments, virtual reality games and human motion identification. Gait recognition based on wearable MEMS inertial sensors is proposed for medical rehabilitation with Physical Activities Healthcare System (PATHS) in this paper. We use relative wavelet energy as features for support vector machine (SVM) recognition algorithm to discriminate walking pattern from other motion patterns. This method has been proven capable of distinguishing walking gait from other regular physical activities through our experimental validation. © 2011 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics
PublisherIEEE
Pages1678-1682
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4577-2138-0
ISBN (Print)978-1-4577-2136-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2011 - Phuket, Thailand
Duration: 7 Dec 201111 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2011
PlaceThailand
CityPhuket
Period7/12/1111/12/11

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