通过地板振动无感检测走路时关节运动,助力老人防跌与疾病监测。
Bridging Structural Dynamics and Biomechanics: Human Motion Estimation through Footstep-Induced Floor Vibrations
- 用物理图模型融合步态生物力学与结构动力学知识
- 12个关节角度平均误差3.7度,较基线降低38%
- 无需穿戴设备,适合居家长期健康监测
日常生活中对人关节运动的定量评估对于早期发现神经肌肉骨骼疾病(如帕金森病)及降低老年人跌倒风险至关重要。现有方法依赖摄像头、可穿戴设备或压力垫,存在视线遮挡、携带不便、部署密集等限制。为此,本文利用步态引起的地板振动来估计下肢关节运动(如踝、膝、髋屈曲角),实现非侵入式、无接触的步态健康监测。为应对仅靠地板振动信息带来的高不确定性,我们构建了一个融合领域知识的物理信息图模型:节点表示关节运动与地板振动的异质信息,边表示关节间生理关系及力与地板响应间的结构动力学关系。该模型通过引入物理约束减少不确定性,同时实现人体与地板间的跨域信息共享,提升预测精度。我们在20名参与者的真实步行实验中验证了该方法,对12个关节屈曲角的估计平均绝对误差为3.7度,较基线降低38%,性能接近当前医疗实践中相机与可穿戴设备的表现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantitative estimation of human joint motion in daily living spaces is essential for early detection and rehabilitation tracking of neuromusculoskeletal disorders (e.g., Parkinson's) and mitigating trip and fall risks for older adults. Existing approaches involve monitoring devices such as cameras, wearables, and pressure mats, but have operational constraints such as direct line-of-sight, carrying devices, and dense deployment. To overcome these limitations, we leverage gait-induced floor vibration to estimate lower-limb joint motion (e.g., ankle, knee, and hip flexion angles), allowing non-intrusive and contactless gait health monitoring in people's living spaces. To overcome the high uncertainty in lower-limb movement given the limited information provided by the gait-induced floor vibrations, we formulate a physics-informed graph to integrate domain knowledge of gait biomechanics and structural dynamics into the model. Specifically, different types of nodes represent heterogeneous information from joint motions and floor vibrations; Their connecting edges represent the physiological relationships between joints and forces governed by gait biomechanics, as well as the relationships between forces and floor responses governed by the structural dynamics. As a result, our model poses physical constraints to reduce uncertainty while allowing information sharing between the body and the floor to make more accurate predictions. We evaluate our approach with 20 participants through a real-world walking experiment. We achieved an average of 3.7 degrees of mean absolute error in estimating 12 joint flexion angles (38% error reduction from baseline), which is comparable to the performance of cameras and wearables in current medical practices.
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