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Signals from two foot pressure insoles and three inertial measurement units (one on the thigh, one on the shank and the other on the foot) are measured. A two-level recognition strategy is used for the recognition with linear discriminate classifier. Six kinds of locomotion modes and ten kinds of locomotion transitions are tested in this study. Recognition accuracy during steady locomotion periods (i.e., no locomotion transitions) is 99.71% \u00b1 0.05% for seven able-bodied subjects. During locomotion transition periods, all the transitions are correctly detected and most of them can be detected before transiting to new locomotion modes. No significant deterioration in recognition performance is observed in the following five hours after the system is trained, and small number of experiment trials are required to train reliable classifiers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140712349","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,10]],"date-time":"2014-07-10T11:22:59Z","timestamp":1404991379000},"page":"12349-12369","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":65,"title":["A Locomotion Intent Prediction System Based on Multi-Sensor Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Baojun","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Intelligent Control Laboratory, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Enhao","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Intelligent Control Laboratory, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qining","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Intelligent Control Laboratory, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"51","DOI":"10.1109\/TRO.2008.2008747","article-title":"Powered ankle-foot prosthesis improves walking metabolic economy","volume":"25","author":"Au","year":"2009","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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