scholarly journals Research on Construction Workers’ Activity Recognition Based on Smartphone

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 2667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingyuan Zhang ◽  
Shuo Chen ◽  
Xuefeng Zhao ◽  
Zhen Yang

This research on identification and classification of construction workers’ activity contributes to the monitoring and management of individuals. Since a single sensor cannot meet management requirements of a complex construction environment, and integrated multiple sensors usually lack systemic flexibility and stability, this paper proposes an approach to construction-activity recognition based on smartphones. The accelerometers and gyroscopes embedded in smartphones were utilized to collect three-axis acceleration and angle data of eight main activities with relatively high frequency in simulated floor-reinforcing steel work. Data acquisition from multiple body parts enhanced the dimensionality of activity features to better distinguish between different activities. The CART algorithm of a decision tree was adopted to build a classification training model whose effectiveness was evaluated and verified through cross-validation. The results showed that the accuracy of classification for overall samples was up to 89.85% and the accuracy of prediction was 94.91%. The feasibility of using smartphones as data-acquisition tools in construction management was verified. Moreover, it was proved that the combination of a decision-tree algorithm with smartphones could achieve complex activity classification and identification.

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1685
Author(s):  
Sakorn Mekruksavanich ◽  
Anuchit Jitpattanakul

Sensor-based human activity recognition (S-HAR) has become an important and high-impact topic of research within human-centered computing. In the last decade, successful applications of S-HAR have been presented through fruitful academic research and industrial applications, including for healthcare monitoring, smart home controlling, and daily sport tracking. However, the growing requirements of many current applications for recognizing complex human activities (CHA) have begun to attract the attention of the HAR research field when compared with simple human activities (SHA). S-HAR has shown that deep learning (DL), a type of machine learning based on complicated artificial neural networks, has a significant degree of recognition efficiency. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are two different types of DL methods that have been successfully applied to the S-HAR challenge in recent years. In this paper, we focused on four RNN-based DL models (LSTMs, BiLSTMs, GRUs, and BiGRUs) that performed complex activity recognition tasks. The efficiency of four hybrid DL models that combine convolutional layers with the efficient RNN-based models was also studied. Experimental studies on the UTwente dataset demonstrated that the suggested hybrid RNN-based models achieved a high level of recognition performance along with a variety of performance indicators, including accuracy, F1-score, and confusion matrix. The experimental results show that the hybrid DL model called CNN-BiGRU outperformed the other DL models with a high accuracy of 98.89% when using only complex activity data. Moreover, the CNN-BiGRU model also achieved the highest recognition performance in other scenarios (99.44% by using only simple activity data and 98.78% with a combination of simple and complex activities).


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1378
Author(s):  
Seung Hyun Lee ◽  
Jaeho Son

It has been pointed out that the act of carrying a heavy object that exceeds a certain weight by a worker at a construction site is a major factor that puts physical burden on the worker’s musculoskeletal system. However, due to the nature of the construction site, where there are a large number of workers simultaneously working in an irregular space, it is difficult to figure out the weight of the object carried by the worker in real time or keep track of the worker who carries the excess weight. This paper proposes a prototype system to track the weight of heavy objects carried by construction workers by developing smart safety shoes with FSR (Force Sensitive Resistor) sensors. The system consists of smart safety shoes with sensors attached, a mobile device for collecting initial sensing data, and a web-based server computer for storing, preprocessing and analyzing such data. The effectiveness and accuracy of the weight tracking system was verified through the experiments where a weight was lifted by each experimenter from +0 kg to +20 kg in 5 kg increments. The results of the experiment were analyzed by a newly developed machine learning based model, which adopts effective classification algorithms such as decision tree, random forest, gradient boosting algorithm (GBM), and light GBM. The average accuracy classifying the weight by each classification algorithm showed similar, but high accuracy in the following order: random forest (90.9%), light GBM (90.5%), decision tree (90.3%), and GBM (89%). Overall, the proposed weight tracking system has a significant 90.2% average accuracy in classifying how much weight each experimenter carries.


2015 ◽  
Vol 639 ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Purr ◽  
Josef Meinhardt ◽  
Arnulf Lipp ◽  
Axel Werner ◽  
Martin Ostermair ◽  
...  

Data-driven quality evaluation in the stamping process of car body parts is quite promising because dependencies in the process have not yet been sufficiently researched. However, the application of data mining methods for the process in stamping plants would require a large number of sample data sets. Today, acquiring these data represents a major challenge, because the necessary data are inadequately measured, recorded or stored. Thus, the preconditions for the sample data acquisition must first be created before being able to investigate any correlations. In addition, the process conditions change over time due to wear mechanisms. Therefore, the results do not remain valid and a constant data acquisition is required. In this publication, the current situation in stamping plants regarding the process robustness will be first discussed and the need for data-driven methods will be shown. Subsequently, the state of technology regarding the possibility of collecting the sample data sets for quality analysis in producing car body parts will be researched. At the end of this work, an overview will be provided concerning how this data collection was implemented at BMW as well as what kind of potential can be expected.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 5770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keshav Thapa ◽  
Zubaer Md. Abdullah Al ◽  
Barsha Lamichhane ◽  
Sung-Hyun Yang

Human activity recognition has become an important research topic within the field of pervasive computing, ambient assistive living (AAL), robotics, health-care monitoring, and many more. Techniques for recognizing simple and single activities are typical for now, but recognizing complex activities such as concurrent and interleaving activity is still a major challenging issue. In this paper, we propose a two-phase hybrid deep machine learning approach using bi-directional Long-Short Term Memory (BiLSTM) and Skip-Chain Conditional random field (SCCRF) to recognize the complex activity. BiLSTM is a sequential generative deep learning inherited from Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). SCCRFs is a distinctive feature of conditional random field (CRF) that can represent long term dependencies. In the first phase of the proposed approach, we recognized the concurrent activities using the BiLSTM technique, and in the second phase, SCCRF identifies the interleaved activity. Accuracy of the proposed framework against the counterpart state-of-art methods using the publicly available datasets in a smart home environment is analyzed. Our experiment’s result surpasses the previously proposed approaches with an average accuracy of more than 93%.


Author(s):  
Kaixuan Chen ◽  
Lina Yao ◽  
Dalin Zhang ◽  
Bin Guo ◽  
Zhiwen Yu

Multi-modality is an important feature of sensor based activity recognition. In this work, we consider two inherent characteristics of human activities, the spatially-temporally varying salience of features and the relations between activities and corresponding body part motions. Based on these, we propose a multi-agent spatial-temporal attention model. The spatial-temporal attention mechanism helps intelligently select informative modalities and their active periods. And the multiple agents in the proposed model represent activities with collective motions across body parts by independently selecting modalities associated with single motions. With a joint recognition goal, the agents share gained information and coordinate their selection policies to learn the optimal recognition model. The experimental results on four real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e298111473
Author(s):  
Hugo Kenji Rodrigues Okada ◽  
Andre Ricardo Nascimento das Neves ◽  
Ricardo Shitsuka

Decision trees are data structures or computational methods that enable nonparametric supervised machine learning and are used in classification and regression tasks. The aim of this paper is to present a comparison between the decision tree induction algorithms C4.5 and CART. A quantitative study is performed in which the two methods are compared by analyzing the following aspects: operation and complexity. The experiments presented practically equal hit percentages in the execution time for tree induction, however, the CART algorithm was approximately 46.24% slower than C4.5 and was considered to be more effective.


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