11th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

A baseline walking dataset exploiting accelerometer and gyroscope for fall prediction and prevention systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267646,
        author={Masoud Hemmatpour and Renato Ferrero and Bartolomeo Montrucchio and Maurizio Rebaudengo},
        title={A baseline walking dataset exploiting accelerometer and gyroscope for fall prediction and prevention systems},
        proceedings={11th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2017},
        month={4},
        keywords={fall database regression model},
        doi={10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267646}
    }
    
  • Masoud Hemmatpour
    Renato Ferrero
    Bartolomeo Montrucchio
    Maurizio Rebaudengo
    Year: 2017
    A baseline walking dataset exploiting accelerometer and gyroscope for fall prediction and prevention systems
    BODYNETS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267646
Masoud Hemmatpour1,*, Renato Ferrero1, Bartolomeo Montrucchio1, Maurizio Rebaudengo1
  • 1: Politecnico di Torino
*Contact email: masoud.hemmatpour@polito.it

Abstract

Fall datasets usually record normal activities and transitions from one posture to another one with falls. Many fall detection datasets based on different sensors are adopted by researchers to improve their systems. Although fall avoidance are dramatically increasing, a public fall prediction and prevention dataset based on an accelerometer and gyroscope is absent. So, this study creates a dataset based on the state-of-the-art techniques in simulating a fall. Different techniques are evaluated to find the best fall simulation. Since accelerometer and gyroscope sensors embedded in a smartphone are recognized to be suited for fall avoidance systems, in this study, they are used to obtain data from users. At the end, some statistical analysis of the observed data are presented and a nonlinear regression model is proposed.