用少量柔性传感器,快速适应新用户并准确识别步态与地形。
Model-agnostic Meta-learning for Adaptive Gait Phase and Terrain Geometry Estimation with Wearable Soft Sensors
- 基于MAML的元学习框架,从少量数据高效适配新用户。
- 在9人5种地形上测试,步态与坡度估计精度显著提升。
- 适合可穿戴设备、康复训练等需要快速个性化部署的场景。
本文提出一种基于模型无关元学习(MAML)的框架,利用少量基于织物的柔性可穿戴传感器,同步精准估计人体步态阶段与地形几何信息。相比惯性测量单元等刚性传感器,柔性传感器虽更舒适,但因滞后效应、贴附误差和布料形变引入非线性问题。加之个体差异与地形变化,以及实际部署中校准数据有限,使估计难度增加。为此,该框架将MAML融入深度学习结构,学习具有主体与地形不变性的模型初始化,从而实现仅需少量校准数据和少数微调步骤即可高效适应新用户,同时保持跨主体、跨地形的强泛化能力。在9名参与者、多种速度、5种地形条件下的实验表明,该方法在步态阶段、运动模式和坡度角估计上均优于基线方法,兼具更高精度、更快适应效率和更强泛化性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This letter presents a model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) based framework for simultaneous and accurate estimation of human gait phase and terrain geometry using a small set of fabric-based wearable soft sensors, with efficient adaptation to unseen subjects and strong generalization across different subjects and terrains. Compared to rigid alternatives such as inertial measurement units, fabric-based soft sensors improve comfort but introduce nonlinearities due to hysteresis, placement error, and fabric deformation. Moreover, inter-subject and inter-terrain variability, coupled with limited calibration data in real-world deployments, further complicate accurate estimation. To address these challenges, the proposed framework integrates MAML into a deep learning architecture to learn a generalizable model initialization that captures subject- and terrain-invariant structure. This initialization enables efficient adaptation (i.e., adaptation with only a small amount of calibration data and a few fine-tuning steps) to new users, while maintaining strong generalization (i.e., high estimation accuracy across subjects and terrains). Experiments on nine participants walking at various speeds over five terrain conditions demonstrate that the proposed framework outperforms baseline approaches in estimating gait phase, locomotion mode, and incline angle, with superior accuracy, adaptation efficiency, and generalization.
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