THE TWD

The Toe Walking Detector (TWD) is a software and hardware platform that aims to assist researchers with gait analysis. More precisely, TWD can detect when an individual is toe walking instead of regular heel-to-toe walking.

TWD is composed of two parts:

1. A small IMU sensor that can be installed on the individual's shoe, allowing it to collect its feet motion data, like linear acceleration and angular velocity;
2. The software that uses a Convolutional Neural Network to process the sensor motion data and correctly classify between regular and toe walking. By now, we're getting a classification accuracy higher than 85%.