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    Area of Science:

    • * Human-computer interaction
    • * Robotics and autonomous systems
    • * Biomedical engineering

    Background:

    • * Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) for distance estimation typically uses acceleration vector norms, yielding only positive values.
    • * Accurate PDR requires detecting anteroposterior acceleration, which can be negative during backward steps, a limitation of current methods.
    • * Existing localization systems struggle to accurately identify walking direction, especially with variations in speed and turning.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • * To propose and validate a novel approach for detecting walking direction using dominant trend duration.
    • * To enhance the accuracy of pedestrian localization by enabling the detection of backward steps and direction changes.
    • * To develop a robust method for identifying walking direction independent of prior training or complex sensor fusion.

    Main Methods:

    • * The approach analyzes the anteroposterior acceleration from a foot-worn accelerometer during the swing phase of walking.
    • * It evaluates the temporal dominance of acceleration trends to determine walking direction (forward/backward).
    • * Validation involved testing on straight and turning paths with varying speeds, calculating success rates, precision, recall, and F1 scores.

    Main Results:

    • * Achieved high detection accuracy: 98 ± 2% on linear paths and 93 ± 7% on turning paths.
    • * The method accurately detects direction across different speeds and turning maneuvers.
    • * Outperforms state-of-the-art bidirectional detection by requiring no prior training and using a single sensor feature.

    Conclusions:

    • * Dominant trend duration is a novel and reliable feature for detecting directional changes during walking, even with speed variations.
    • * The proposed method offers a robust and simple solution for bidirectional walking direction detection.
    • * This approach significantly improves the potential for accurate pedestrian localization systems.