Fuzzy Logic and Machine Learning Algorithms for Detection and Classification of Falls and Activities of Daily Living

Abstract

This article analyses the movements of young and elderly people using data collected from an accelerometer and a gyroscope. This study proposes Type I fuzzy logic (FL) and several machine learning (ML) algorithms for the detection and classification of daily life movements and falls. The results obtained demonstrate that a fuzzy logic system can efficiently integrate data from an accelerometer and a gyroscope to classify falls and movements in daily life with 97.4% accuracy. When ML classifiers are used, the performance across several algorithms is also very high.