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- Title
Enhanced Algorithm for the Detection of Preimpact Fall for Wearable Airbags.
- Authors
Jung, Haneul; Koo, Bummo; Kim, Jongman; Kim, Taehee; Nam, Yejin; Kim, Youngho
- Abstract
Fall-related injury is a common cause of mortality among the elderly. Hip fractures are especially dangerous and can even be fatal. In this study, a threshold-based preimpact fall detection algorithm was developed for wearable airbags that minimize the impact of falls on the user's body. Acceleration sum vector magnitude (SVM), angular velocity SVM, and vertical angle, calculated using inertial data captured from an inertial measurement unit were used to develop the algorithm. To calculate the vertical angle accurately, a complementary filter with a proportional integral controller was used to minimize integration errors and the effect of external impacts. In total, 30 healthy young men were recruited to simulate 6 types of falls and 14 activities of daily life. The developed algorithm achieved 100% sensitivity, 97.54% specificity, 98.33% accuracy, and an average lead time (i.e., the time between the fall detection and the collision) of 280.25 ± 10.29 ms with our experimental data, whereas it achieved 96.1% sensitivity, 90.5% specificity, and 92.4% accuracy with the SisFall public dataset. This paper demonstrates that the algorithm achieved a high accuracy using our experimental data, which included some highly dynamic motions that had not been tested previously.
- Subjects
AIR bag restraint systems; ANGULAR velocity; HIP fractures; AUTUMN; ALGORITHMS
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2020, Vol 20, Issue 5, p1277
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s20051277