A method to estimate horse speed per stride from one IMU with a machine learning method

(Eine Methode zur Schätzung der Pferdegeschwindigkeit pro Schritt aus einer IMU mit einer maschinellen Lernmethode)

With the emergence of numerical sensors in sports, there is an increasing need for tools and methods to compute objective motion parameters with great accuracy. In particular, inertial measurement units are increasingly used in the clinical domain or the sports one to estimate spatiotemporal parameters. The purpose of the present study was to develop a model that can be included in a smart device in order to estimate the horse speed per stride from accelerometric and gyroscopic data without the use of a global positioning system, enabling the use of such a tool in both indoor and outdoor conditions. The accuracy of two speed calculation methods was compared: one signal based and one machine learning model. Those two methods allowed the calculation of speed from accelerometric and gyroscopic data without any other external input. For this purpose, data were collected under various speeds on straight lines and curved paths. Two reference systems were used to measure the speed in order to have a reference speed value to compare each tested model and estimate their accuracy. Those models were compared according to three different criteria: the percentage of error above 0.6 m/s, the RMSE, and the Bland and Altman limit of agreement. The machine learning method outperformed its competitor by giving the lowest value for all three criteria. The main contribution of this work is that it is the first method that gives an accurate speed per stride for horses without being coupled with a global positioning system or a magnetometer. No similar study performed on horses exists to compare our work with, so the presented model is compared to existing models for human walking. Moreover, this tool can be extended to other equestrian sports, as well as bipedal locomotion as long as consistent data are provided to train the machine learning model. The machine learning model’s accurate results can be explained by the large database built to train the model and the innovative way of slicing stride data before using them as an input for the model.
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Schlagworte: Pferdesport Geschwindigkeit Prognose Sensor Inertialmesssystem
Notationen: Naturwissenschaften und Technik technische Sportarten
Tagging: Support Vector Machine
DOI: 10.3390/s20020518
Veröffentlicht in: Sensors
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Jahrgang: 20
Heft: 2
Seiten: 518
Dokumentenarten: Artikel
Sprache: Englisch
Level: hoch