Classification of standing and sitting phases based on in-socket piezoelectric sensors in a transfemoral amputee

Yahya Al-Nusairi, Tawfik and Hamzaid, Nur Azah and Ali, Sadeeq and Jasni, Farahiyah and Shasmin, Hanie Nadia (2020) Classification of standing and sitting phases based on in-socket piezoelectric sensors in a transfemoral amputee. Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, 65 (5). pp. 567-576. ISSN 0013-5585 E-ISSN 1862-278X

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Abstract

A transfemoral prosthesis is required to assist amputees to perform the activity of daily living (ADL). The passive prosthesis has some drawbacks such as utilization of high metabolic energy. In contrast, the active prosthesis consumes less metabolic energy and offers better performance. However, the recent active prosthesis uses surface electromyography as its sensory system which has weak signals with microvolt-level intensity and requires a lot of computation to extract features. This paper focuses on recognizing different phases of sitting and standing of a transfemoral amputee using in-socket piezoelectric-based sensors. 15 piezoelectric film sensors were embedded in the inner socket wall adjacent to the most active regions of the agonist and antagonist knee extensor and flexor muscles, i. e. region with the highest level of muscle contractions of the quadriceps and hamstring. A male transfemoral amputee wore the instrumented socket and was instructed to perform several sitting and standing phases using an armless chair. Data was collected from the 15 embedded sensors and went through signal conditioning circuits. The overlapping analysis window technique was used to segment the data using different window lengths. Fifteen time-domain and frequency-domain features were extracted and new feature sets were obtained based on the feature performance. Eight of the common pattern recognition multiclass classifiers were evaluated and compared. Regression analysis was used to investigate the impact of the number of features and the window lengths on the classifiers' accuracies, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test significant differences in the classifiers' performances. The classification accuracy was calculated using k-fold cross-validation method, and 20% of the data set was held out for testing the optimal classifier. The results showed that the feature set (FS-5) consisting of the root mean square (RMS) and the number of peaks (NP) achieved the highest classification accuracy in five classifiers. Support vector machine (SVM) with cubic kernel proved to be the optimal classifier, and it achieved a classification accuracy of 98.33 % using the test data set. Obtaining high classification accuracy using only two time-domain features would significantly reduce the processing time of controlling a prosthesis and eliminate substantial delay. The proposed in-socket sensors used to detect sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit movements could be further integrated with an active knee joint actuation system to produce powered assistance during energy-demanding activities such as sit-to-stand and stair climbing. In future, the system could also be used to accurately predict the intended movement based on their residual limb's muscle and mechanical behaviour as detected by the in-socket sensory system.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	8790/83055
Uncontrolled Keywords:	feature selection, in-socket sensory system, prosthetic leg, window length
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Depositing User:	Dr Farahiyah Jasni
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2020 12:50
Last Modified:	01 Feb 2021 15:44
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/83055

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