Online learning of gait models for calculation of gait parameters

This paper proposes a novel approach for gait analysis from wearable sensing, based on an adaptive periodic model of any gait signal. The proposed method learns a model of the gait cycle during online measurement, using a continuous representation that can adapt to inter and intra-personal variability by creating an individualized model. Once the algorithm has converged to the input signal, key gait events can be identified relative to the estimated gait phase; these events can then be used to calculate gait parameters. The approach is implemented and tested on a human motion dataset where heel impact and toe takeoff events are extracted with an average error of 0.04 cycles.