Affiliation:
1. Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology, ul. Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland
Abstract
In this paper, the useability of feedforward and recurrent neural networks for fusion of data from impulse-radar sensors and depth sensors, in the context of healthcare-oriented monitoring of elderly persons, is investigated. Two methods of data fusion are considered, viz., one based on a multilayer perceptron and one based on a nonlinear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs. These two methods are compared with a reference method with respect to their capacity for decreasing the uncertainty of estimation of a monitored person’s position and uncertainty of estimation of several parameters enabling medical personnel to make useful inferences on the health condition of that person, viz., the number of turns made during walking, the travelled distance, and the mean walking speed. Both artificial neural networks were trained on the synthetic data. The numerical experiments show the superiority of the method based on a nonlinear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs. This may be explained by the fact that for this type of network, the prediction of the person’s position at each time instant is based on the position of that person at the previous time instants.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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