Predicting Complete Ground Reaction Forces and Moments During Gait With Insole Plantar Pressure Information Using a Wavelet Neural Network

J Biomech Eng. 2015 Sep;137(9). doi: 10.1115/1.4030892. Epub 2015 Jul 1.

Abstract

In general, three-dimensional ground reaction forces (GRFs) and ground reaction moments (GRMs) that occur during human gait are measured using a force plate, which are expensive and have spatial limitations. Therefore, we proposed a prediction model for GRFs and GRMs, which only uses plantar pressure information measured from insole pressure sensors with a wavelet neural network (WNN) and principal component analysis-mutual information (PCA-MI). For this, the prediction model estimated GRFs and GRMs with three different gait speeds (slow, normal, and fast groups) and healthy/pathological gait patterns (healthy and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) groups). Model performance was validated using correlation coefficients (r) and the normalized root mean square error (NRMSE%) and was compared to the prediction accuracy of the previous methods using the same dataset. As a result, the performance of the GRF and GRM prediction model proposed in this study (slow group: r = 0.840-0.989 and NRMSE% = 10.693-15.894%; normal group: r = 0.847-0.988 and NRMSE% = 10.920-19.216%; fast group: r = 0.823-0.953 and NRMSE% = 12.009-20.182%; healthy group: r = 0.836-0.976 and NRMSE% = 12.920-18.088%; and AIS group: r = 0.917-0.993 and NRMSE% = 7.914-15.671%) was better than that of the prediction models suggested in previous studies for every group and component (p < 0.05 or 0.01). The results indicated that the proposed model has improved performance compared to previous prediction models.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Female
  • Foot / physiology*
  • Foot / physiopathology
  • Gait*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mechanical Phenomena*
  • Neural Networks, Computer*
  • Pressure*
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Scoliosis / physiopathology
  • Wavelet Analysis*
  • Young Adult