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It is an effective scheme to solve complex pattern recognition and improve classification performance. This study aims to improve the accuracy and robustness of exoskeleton gait pattern transition recognition in complex environments. Based on the theory of multi-source information fusion, this paper explored a multi-source information fusion model for exoskeleton gait pattern transition recognition in terms of two aspects of multi-source information fusion strategy and multi-classifier fusion. For eight common gait pattern transitions (between level and stair walking and between level and ramp walking), we proposed a hybrid fusion strategy of multi-source information at the feature level and decision level. We first selected an optimal feature subset through correlation feature extraction and feature selection algorithm, followed by the feature fusion through the classifier. We then studied the construction of a multi-classifier fusion model with a focus on the selection of base classifier and multi-classifier fusion algorithm. By analyzing the classification performance and robustness of the multi-classifier fusion model integrating multiple classifier combinations with a number of multi-classifier fusion algorithms, we finally constructed a multi-classifier fusion model based on D-S evidence theory and the combination of three SVM classifiers with different kernel functions (linear, RBF, polynomial). Such multi-source information fusion model improved the anti-interference and fault tolerance of the model through the hybrid fusion strategy of feature level and decision level and had higher accuracy and robustness in the gait pattern transition recognition, whose average recognition accuracy for eight gait pattern transitions reached 99.70%, which increased by 0.15% compared with the highest average recognition accuracy of the single classifier. 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