Wearable gait recognition system based on time domain features of Bluetooth inertial sensor network

Abstract As an important part of medical monitoring, gait recognition has been used in lower limb rehabilitation diagnosis and gait assessment. To meet practical requirements, we designed a wearable gait recognition system based on time domain features of Bluetooth inertial sensor network, which can be used for real-time acquisition and evaluation of gait signals. In this research, we used 6 sensor units to integrate 10 kinds of gait information, and designed a gait monitoring system covering the main joints of lower limbs based on Bluetooth network. The gait monitoring system can collect the inertial sensing data of lower limbs at a maximum rate of 90 Hz through the 6 sensor units, and has good electrical performance. In daily use, each unit can work for more than 3 hours and maintain a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of more than -90 dBm at a spatial distance of 10 meters. On the gait dataset collected in the experiment, we used sliding window to segment the time domain signals and extract 10 kinds of time domain features for classification algorithm. We achieved 97.1% average identification accuracy of 7 different gait patterns by support vector machine (SVM).