Observing human gait and detecting falls: A model-based approach based on wearable sensors

Falling remains a large source of (traumatic) injuries and healthcare costs. Over the past years, different actuators have been developed in the field of wearable robotics to help prevent injuries from falling. To increase the wearability of these systems, the weight of power storage can be decreased with intermittent instead of continuous...

Fall Detection and Posture Tracking: Indoor Positioning and Fall Detection System Without Wearables

In the past decades, the workload and the pressure on medical personnel has been growing to an unprecedented peak. This is partly due to the ageing population and the increasing capabilities to be independent at an older age, increasing the age people enter nursing homes. This paper focuses on a novel way to detect incidents that could occur in...

Indoor Positioning and Fall Detection System Without Wearables: <redacted>

This thesis report, one of a set of two reports, describes a novel way to detect incidents that could occur in the daily life of the elderly. Unlike most systems already implemented in this field, this system does not use any wearable (positioning) sensors and works off an Single Board Computer (SBC).Independent of both of these systems is a...

Improving fall from height risk reduction: Creating a safer construction site with the use of BIM technology

Innovative solutions for safety and risk management on construction sites are required to reduce the amount of accidents that occur globally, as too many occupational accidents still happen in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry. A particular problem is the fall from height (FFH) accidents on construction sites, due to...

Camera Positioning and Vision-based Fall Detection

Elderly care residences often have falling incidents, sometimes with dire consequences. This project aims to implement a method for detecting when people fall, an issue that has seen much research and practical implementations already. In contrast to other work, this project aims to create a non-intrusive, non-wearable solution through the use...

Activity and Fall Detection in the Habitational Environment: Subsystem: Sensor design and Hardware Abstraction Layer

This report is part of a bigger project to design a fall detection system for elderly and describes the hardware of the system. The importance of this research is that elderly can live longer in their home by alerting the correct instances in case of an accident. The hardware consists of a 1x2 meter sensor grid below the surface of the floor....

Activity and Fall Detection in the Habitational Environment: Subsystem: Interface

This report describes the design and implementation of an interface subsystem for a fall detection system using a pressure based floor sensor. The goal of the fall detection system is to detect and alarm when an elderly person has fallen. The subsystem covers communication between hardware and software, using the WiFi protocol MQTT. The...

Activity and Fall Detection in the Habitational Environment: Subsystem: Fall detection algorithm

This report describes the design and implementation of a fall detection algorithm for a fall detection system using a pressure based floor sensor. The goal of the system is to detect falls and alarm the relevant personnel when an elderly person has fallen. The fall detection algorithm has a strong connection with the interface subsystem, which...

Pre-impact fall detection

Falls and fall-related injuries are among the most serious and common medical problems experienced by the elderly. Support could be given to prevent severe injuries from those falls. Therefore the design of a robotic assistive device is currently investigated in the MARS3-project. Such a device requires knowledge of the human posture to...