Simple ambulatory gait monitoring system using a single IMU for various daily-life gait activities

The gait monitoring during daily-life is promising measure to predict mortality, functional decline and fall risk, and classification of gait activities has the possibility for further clinical usage. This paper introduces a simple ambulatory gait monitoring system using a single IMU attached on foot. The system consist of gait parameter estimation and simple gait activity classification algorithm based on characteristics of foot behavior in...