Activity Recognition With Multiple Wearable Sensors for Industrial Applications

In this paper, we address the problem of recognizing the current activity performed by a human operator, providing an information useful for automatic ergonomic evaluation for industrial applications. While the majority of research in activity recognition relies on cameras observing the human, here we explore the use of wearable sensors, which are more suitable in industrial environments. We use a wearable motion tracking suit and a sensorized glove. We describe our approach for activity recognition with a probabilistic model based on Hidden Markov Models, applied to the problem of recognizing elementary activities during a pick-and-place task inspired by a manufacturing scenario. We show that our model is able to correctly recognize the activities with 96% of precision if both sensors are used.