Physically Consistent Whole-Body Kinematics Assessment Based on an RGB-D Sensor. Application to Simple Rehabilitation Exercises - Université Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne
Journal Articles Sensors Year : 2020

Physically Consistent Whole-Body Kinematics Assessment Based on an RGB-D Sensor. Application to Simple Rehabilitation Exercises

Jessica Colombel
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David Daney
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Raphael Dumas
Antoine Seilles
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François Charpillet
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Abstract

This work proposes to improve the accuracy of joint angle estimates obtained from an RGB-D sensor. It is based on a constrained extended Kalman Filter that tracks inputted measured joint centers. Since the proposed approach uses a biomechanical model, it allows physically consistent constrained joint angles and constant segment lengths to be obtained. A practical method that is not sensor-specific for the optimal tuning of the extended Kalman filter covariance matrices is provided. It uses reference data obtained from a stereophotogrammetric system but it has to be tuned only once since it is task-specific only. The improvement of the optimal tuning over classical methods in setting the covariance matrices is shown with a statistical parametric mapping analysis. The proposed approach was tested with six healthy subjects who performed four rehabilitation tasks. The accuracy of joint angle estimates was assessed with a reference stereophotogrammetric system. Even if some joint angles, such as the internal/external rotations, were not well estimated, the proposed optimized algorithm reached a satisfactory average root mean square difference of 9.7 ∘ and a correlation coefficient of 0.8 for all joints. Our results show that an affordable RGB-D sensor can be used for simple in-home rehabilitation when using a constrained biomechanical model.

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hal-04034401 , version 1 (17-03-2023)

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Jessica Colombel, Vincent Bonnet, David Daney, Raphael Dumas, Antoine Seilles, et al.. Physically Consistent Whole-Body Kinematics Assessment Based on an RGB-D Sensor. Application to Simple Rehabilitation Exercises. Sensors, 2020, 20 (10), pp.2848. ⟨10.3390/s20102848⟩. ⟨hal-04034401⟩

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