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Physics-informed hierarchical transformer for wearable sensor-based gait fatigue assessment.
Frontiers in Public Health
|April 29, 2026
Summary
This study introduces a novel framework for assessing fatigue using wearable sensors, improving accuracy by integrating biomechanical rules into deep learning models. This approach enhances sports injury prevention and rehabilitation monitoring.
Area of Science:
- Biomechanics
- Wearable Technology
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Gait-based fatigue assessment is crucial for sports injury prevention and rehabilitation.
- Existing methods lack accuracy and physical plausibility, with traditional approaches failing to capture complex data and deep learning models violating biomechanical principles.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a framework for accurate and physically plausible fatigue assessment using wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs).
- To integrate differentiable biomechanical constraints into a hierarchical attention architecture for enhanced fatigue detection.
Main Methods:
- A hierarchical multi-sensor attention mechanism processes IMU data using cross-sensor and temporal attention.
- Differentiable biomechanical constraints (kinematic limits, dynamics, symmetry, energy conservation) are incorporated as learnable regularizers.
- Curriculum learning adaptively weights constraints, progressing from data-driven warmup to physics-based strengthening.
Main Results:
- Improved classification accuracy for multi-level fatigue assessment.
- Robust performance despite sensor noise and individual sensor failures.
- Validated generalization capability across subjects and environments for field deployment.
Conclusions:
- This framework advances physics-informed machine learning for biomechanical assessment.
- It offers a more accurate and reliable method for fatigue monitoring in sports and rehabilitation.
