PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MONITORING AND AMBULATORY MOVEMENT ANALYIS USING INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS

This applied session will present the technology and methodology based on Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) in the context of physical activity monitoring and ambulatory motion analysis. It will also expose projects that have used this technology to monitor or analyse sport activities. During this session, the perspectives but also the issues met when dealing with this technology will also be discussed

FROM TRADITIONAL TO INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES FOR INERTIAL BODY MOTION CAPTURE

Inertial motion capture (mocap) is a widespread technology for capturing human motion outside the lab, e.g. for applications in sports, ergonomics, rehabilitation and personal fitness. Even though mature systems are commercially available, inertial mocap is still a subject of research due to a number of limitations: besides measurement errors and sparsity, also simplified body models and calibration routines, soft tissue artefacts and varying body shapes lead to limited precision and robustness compared to optical gold standard systems. The goal of the research group wearHEALTH at the TU Kaiserslautern is to tackle these challenges by bringing together ideas and approaches from different disciplines including biomechanics, sensor fusion, computer vision and (optimal control) simulation. In this talk, we will present an overview of our approaches and applications, starting from the more traditional ones

Técnicas de computación evolutiva aplicadas a la clasificación a partir de monitores de actividad física

Actualmente, varios factores están haciendo que el campo de reconocimiento de actividades humanas cobre una mayor importancia, como por ejemplo, la proliferación de dispositivos “wearables” que permiten monitorizar la actividad física o la tendencia de la población mundial hacia un estilo de vida cada vez más sedentario. Este estilo de vida sedentario propio de la sociedad actual se traduce en insuficiente actividad física y se considera uno de los mayores factores de riesgo para la salud, estando entre los primeros puestos de factores de riesgo de mortalidad a nivel mundial, según la OMS [11]. De esta manera, dentro del ámbito de la salud y el bienestar, gracias al avance en la miniaturización de sensores, que incluso permite su uso incorporados a la ropa de las personas, el reconocimiento automático de actividades se presenta como una solución a problemas de diversa índole, como por ejemplo, prevención de enfermedades, envejecimiento activo, monitorización remota de enfermos, además de un amplio espectro de aplicaciones en el ámbito deportivo. Es por esto que se convierten en dispositivos de monitorización sumamente útiles en otras áreas de investigación, introduciendo el reconocimiento de actividades humanas en la computación ubicua, el entretenimiento, el registro de actividades diarias personales o el seguimiento del rendimiento deportivo o profesional. Con la principal motivación de explorar nuevos frentes de investigación del reconocimiento de actividades, con un enfoque distinto a los planteados hasta ahora, en este trabajo se propone un sistema de reconocimiento automático de actividades que integra un algoritmo evolutivo, para la tarea de clasificación de actividades, y un enjambre de partículas, para la realización de un clustering que mejore el aprendizaje automático. El sistema ha sido evaluado mediante validación cruzada del tipo leave-one-subject-out, para comprobar su rendimiento en situaciones de reconocimiento independiente del sujeto, obteniendo un 52,37% de acierto. También, se ha evaluado el sistema con validación cruzada estándar de 10-folds en cada sujeto, para analizar la capacidad del sistema en casos de clasificación dependiente del sujeto, alcanzando un 98,07% de acierto. Un resultado significativamente más positivo que el primero, que muestra que el sistema puede tender a la personalización del reconocimiento de actividades. Además, se ha llevado a cabo la evaluación del sistema con validación cruzada estándar de 10-folds en el conjunto de todos los sujetos, con un 70,2267% de acierto, abundándose en la conclusión expuesta más arriba, de que el sistema presenta un mejor funcionamiento en situaciones de personalización del reconocimiento de actividades.In the current time, various factors are making the field of activity recognition become more important, such as the proliferation of wearable devices that allow to monitor physical activity or global population’s tendency towards a more sendentary lifestyle. This sedentary lifestyle is turning into insufficient physical activity and is considered one of the factors with a highest risk for health, being among the leading risk factors of mortality, regarding the WHO [11]. This way, within health and wellness field, thanks to the advance in sensor miniaturization, which even allows sensor usage incorporated to people clothes, activity automatic recognition is presented as a solution to very diverse problems, such as diseases prevention, active aging, patient remote monitoring, as well as a wide range of applications in sports. For that reason, wearable sensors happen to be extremely useful monitorizing devices in other research areas, introducing human activity recognition to ubiquitous computing, entertainment industry, daily life activities logging and sportive and professional perfomance monitoring, among others. With the main motivation of exploring new research horizons, through a different approach to the previous works, in this project, an activity automatic recognition system that integrates an evolutionary algorithm, for the activity classification task, and a particle swarm, for a clustering that improves the automatic learning, is proposed. The system has been evaluated with leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) cross validation, in order to assess its performance in situations where the recognition is subject independent, obtaining an accuracy rate of 52,37%. Also, the system has been evaluated with 10-fold standard cross validation within each subject, to analyze the system’s capacity in subject dependent classification cases, reaching an accuracy rate of 98,07%. A significantly more positive result than the first one, that shows the system might tend to personalization of activity recognition. In addition, the system evaluation has been carried with 10-fold standard cross validation within the whole set of all the subjects, getting an accuracy rate of 70,2267%, which supports the conclusion presented above that the system works better in situations of personalization of the activity recognition.Grado en Ingeniería Informátic

Proceedings of the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2015

This volume contains the full papers accepted for presentation at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2015 held in the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, on June 29 - July 2, 2015. The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics is an international meeting held once every two years in a European country. Continuing the very successful series of past conferences that have been organized in Lisbon (2003), Madrid (2005), Milan (2007), Warsaw (2009), Brussels (2011) and Zagreb (2013); this edition will once again serve as a meeting point for the international researchers, scientists and experts from academia, research laboratories and industry working in the area of multibody dynamics. Applications are related to many fields of contemporary engineering, such as vehicle and railway systems, aeronautical and space vehicles, robotic manipulators, mechatronic and autonomous systems, smart structures, biomechanical systems and nanotechnologies. The topics of the conference include, but are not restricted to: ● Formulations and Numerical Methods ● Efficient Methods and Real-Time Applications ● Flexible Multibody Dynamics ● Contact Dynamics and Constraints ● Multiphysics and Coupled Problems ● Control and Optimization ● Software Development and Computer Technology ● Aerospace and Maritime Applications ● Biomechanics ● Railroad Vehicle Dynamics ● Road Vehicle Dynamics ● Robotics ● Benchmark ProblemsPostprint (published version

Multibody dynamics 2015

This volume contains the full papers accepted for presentation at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2015 held in the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, on June 29 - July 2, 2015. The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics is an international meeting held once every two years in a European country. Continuing the very successful series of past conferences that have been organized in Lisbon (2003), Madrid (2005), Milan (2007), Warsaw (2009), Brussels (2011) and Zagreb (2013); this edition will once again serve as a meeting point for the international researchers, scientists and experts from academia, research laboratories and industry working in the area of multibody dynamics. Applications are related to many fields of contemporary engineering, such as vehicle and railway systems, aeronautical and space vehicles, robotic manipulators, mechatronic and autonomous systems, smart structures, biomechanical systems and nanotechnologies. The topics of the conference include, but are not restricted to: Formulations and Numerical Methods, Efficient Methods and Real-Time Applications, Flexible Multibody Dynamics, Contact Dynamics and Constraints, Multiphysics and Coupled Problems, Control and Optimization, Software Development and Computer Technology, Aerospace and Maritime Applications, Biomechanics, Railroad Vehicle Dynamics, Road Vehicle Dynamics, Robotics, Benchmark Problems. The conference is organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. The organizers would like to thank the authors for submitting their contributions, the keynote lecturers for accepting the invitation and for the quality of their talks, the awards and scientific committees for their support to the organization of the conference, and finally the topic organizers for reviewing all extended abstracts and selecting the awards nominees.Postprint (published version