Spanias John A, Simon Ann M, Perreault Eric J, Hargrove Levi J
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug;2016:5083-5086. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591870.
Powered prosthetic legs are capable of improving the gait of lower limb amputees. Pattern recognition systems for these devices allow amputees to transition between different locomotion modes in a way that is seamless and transparent to the user. However, the potential of these systems is diminished because they require large amounts of training data that is burdensome to collect. To reduce the effort required to acquire these data, we developed an adaptive pattern recognition system that automatically learns from subject-specific data as the user is ambulating. We tested our proposed system with two able-bodied subjects ambulating with a powered knee and ankle prosthesis. Each subject initially ambulated with a pattern recognition system that was not trained with any data from that subject (making each subject a novel user). Initially, the pattern recognition system made frequent errors. With the adaptive algorithm, the error rate decreased over time as more subject-specific data were incorporated. When compared to a non-adaptive system, the adaptive system reduced the number of errors by 32.9% [8.6%], mean [standard deviation]. This study demonstrates the potential improvements of an adaptive pattern recognition system over non-adaptive systems presented in prior research.
电动假肢能够改善下肢截肢者的步态。这些设备的模式识别系统使截肢者能够以一种对用户无缝且透明的方式在不同运动模式之间转换。然而,这些系统的潜力有所降低,因为它们需要大量难以收集的训练数据。为了减少获取这些数据所需的工作量,我们开发了一种自适应模式识别系统,该系统在用户行走时自动从特定个体的数据中学习。我们使用两名佩戴电动膝关节和踝关节假肢行走的健全受试者对我们提出的系统进行了测试。每个受试者最初使用的模式识别系统都没有用该受试者的任何数据进行训练(使每个受试者都是新用户)。最初,模式识别系统频繁出错。随着自适应算法的应用,随着纳入更多特定个体的数据,错误率随时间下降。与非自适应系统相比,自适应系统将错误数量减少了32.9%[8.6%],平均值[标准差]。本研究证明了自适应模式识别系统相对于先前研究中提出的非自适应系统的潜在改进。