• The School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, P. R. China;
LIU Zuojun, Email: liuzuojun@hebut.edu.cn
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In order to improve the motion fluency and coordination of lower extremity exoskeleton robots and wearers, a pace recognition method of exoskeleton wearer is proposed base on inertial sensors. Firstly, the triaxial acceleration and triaxial angular velocity signals at the thigh and calf were collected by inertial sensors. Then the signal segment of 0.5 seconds before the current time was extracted by the time window method. And the Fourier transform coefficients in the frequency domain signal were used as eigenvalues. Then the support vector machine (SVM) and hidden Markov model (HMM) were combined as a classification model, which was trained and tested for pace recognition. Finally, the pace change rule and the human-machine interaction force were combined in this model and the current pace was predicted by the model. The experimental results showed that the pace intention of the lower extremity exoskeleton wearer could be effectively identified by the method proposed in this article. And the recognition rate of the seven pace patterns could reach 92.14%. It provides a new way for the smooth control of the exoskeleton.

Citation: HU Dong, LIU Zuojun, CHEN Lingling, WANG Qian. A pace recognition method for exoskeleton wearers based on support vector machine-hidden Markov model. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2022, 39(1): 84-91. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.202011009 Copy

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