Real-time Terrain Recognition based on Transformer and Gait Prediction based on CNN-LSTM-Attention for Exosuit

For wearable soft exosuits, an imprecise control strategy can easily injure the wearer, while real-time terrain recognition and accurate gait phase estimation can effectively improve the control strategy of the exosuit and make the wearer comfortable and safe. In this paper, a real-time terrain recognition algorithm based on Transformer and a gait estimation algorithm based on CNN-LSTM-Attention are implemented. The Transformer-based recognition of different terrains improves the recognition accuracy to some extent, and the CNN-LSTM-Attention based feature extraction for temporal signals such as gait phase is also extremely noticeable. Experiments show that the Transformer-based algorithm achieves 99.64 % recognition accuracy in six different terrain environments. In the gait phase estimation experiment, CNN-LSTM-CBAM achieved the best performance with an evaluation index r2 of 0.9221. The aforementioned terrain recognition algorithms and gait phase estimation algorithms may have a positive impact on soft exosuit and dynamic prosthetics research.