Distinguish walking and running using Machine Learning

Made by Jayraj Desai (/Blue_jack) - Published in Adafruit (/adafruit), Arduino (/arduino), Fitness (/fitness), Health (/health), Tessel
(/tessel), and Wearables (/wearables)

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Gather data and develop algorithm to distinguish walking and running.

 fitness (/projects/tags/fitness)  machine learning (/projects/tags/machine+learning)  running (/projects/tags/running)

 walking (/projects/tags/walking)  wearables (/projects/tags/wearables)

PROJECT INFO

Type  Full instructions provided

Difficulty Intermediate (/projects?difficulty=intermediate)
Estimated time 10 hours
Published February 18, 2016
License GPL3+ (http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0)
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STORY

Intro: Distinguish walking and running using Machine Learning

Electronic market is full of devices called pedometer and fitness tracker. They counts the number of steps you have
taken, distance you have covered, whether you are walking or running and bunch of other stuff. Ever wondered, how
these devices perform such measurements.

I decided to make one on my own and share the knowledge of making it with guys. We will develop accelerometer data
accumulator and an algorithm, intelligent enough to identify whether you are walking or running.

I decided to go with machine learning. Machine learning is a sub-field of computer science which explores the study
and construction of algorithms that can learn from data, and the derived algorithm is then used to make predictions on
data. I am going to walk you through them step by step and believe me these things are easy to learn.
Read more
Lets get started.

SCHEMATICS

fritzing schematic Download (https://halckemy.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/image_file/file/123097/sketch.png)

this is how connections are to be done.

CODE

Arduino code Keep upOctave

to visualize file MATLAB   (/code_files/53204/download)

sample data date with the

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 data_running_4 1 clear; close all; clc
2
data_running_5 3 fprintf('Reading data ...\n');
4 %change the path to point to your file.
data_walking_1 5 data = load('~/AStudy/Hobby/Machine_learning_approch/DATA_and_octave_scripts/DATA/Running_13bit
6 Fs=(1/0.014);
data_walking_2
7 nfft =1024;
data_walking_3 8 X=data(:,1);
9 starting=1;
data_walking_4 10 ending=size(X,1);
11 X_fft = fft(X(starting:ending).-mean(X(starting:ending)),nfft);
Octave visuali… 12 Y=data(:,2);
13 Y_fft = fft(Y(starting:ending).-mean(Y(starting:ending)),nfft);
other octave c… 14 Z=data(:,3);
15 Z_fft = fft(Z(starting:ending).-mean(Z(starting:ending)),nfft);
other octave c… 16 figure (1);
17 subplot(3,1,1);
other octave c… 18 plot(X);
19 ylabel('X-data');
other octave c… 20 subplot(3,1,2);
21 plot(Y);

CREDITS

Jayraj Desai (/Blue_jack)

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