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Estimation of the Average Gait Velocity based on Statistical Stride Parameters of Foot Sensor Data
(2016)
The paper presents our public Gait Analysis Data Base (http://gaitanalysis.th-brandenburg.de), which contains 3D walking kinematics and muscle activity data from healthy adults walking at normal, slow or fast pace on the flat ground or at an incremental speeds on treadmill. The acceleration, angular velocity and magnetic rate vectors are measured using XSens MTw sensors attached to both feet, shanks, thighs and the pelvis. EMG recordings are acquired using PLUX sEMG sensors applied at various leg muscles. The paper gives not only a detailed description of the data base, its webpage and the used terms (scenario, proband, experiment and trial), but also an overview about the experimental setup, the acquisition of data and the procedure of the experiments, the data processing and evaluation. Results of exemplary applications are described in the second part of the paper.
The paper presents an observation and evaluation of the recovery process. Seven weeks after the fracture of the fibula and six weeks after surgery the measurement of the gait of the subject has been started. Inertial measurement units applied above both ankles are used to acquire kinematical data and three surface EMG at each leg to get information about the activity of three muscles. The intensity of the weekly tests has been increased in dependence on the healing progress. Both scenarios-walking on the floor and on the treadmill-were included in the experiments to obtain comparable data sets. Beside of the investigation of the healing process the paper is focused on symmetry/asymmetry properties of the gait. The results indicate that asymmetry is not only an essential property of pathologic gait but it is present in normal gait too, especially if short distances are evaluated. They may be caused by the influence of a dominant/injured leg, of the first/last steps, the natural variance of the gait or the daily fitness of the subject. Asymmetry is obviously in the contribution of both legs to a stride (step length, strike and lift angle, stand and swing phase).