Title
Machine Learning Based Skill-Level Classification For Personal Mobility Devices Using Only Operational Characteristics
Abstract
Some electric-powered wheelchairs are recently redefined as personal mobility devices. Their users are not only elderly or handicapped people, but also passengers with large baggage or pedestrians going from station to destination, i.e., last-mile transport. Consequently, people with different operation skills and expectations on personal mobility would become new users of this kind of devices. Safe and comfort travel in human co-existing environment such as sidewalks and airports is a social expectation for personal mobility. In order to realize this, understanding the operation skill of each user by a practical and simple method is essential. This paper thus introduced a skill level classification method by machine learning using only joystick data as input. In order to determine the number of skill level clusters, basic 26 features of joystick operation data are used for unsupervised clustering (single-linkage). We then made evaluation indexes by using speed, speed control, and direction control. For a five-level classification by using gradient boosting as supervised learning, we achieved a 67% accuracy (tolerance: 0) and a 98% accuracy (tolerance: 1). Further analysis of the feature importance of gradient boosting revealed key features to a good operation. Results also show that skill level differed among people with different driving experiences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/IROS.2018.8593578
2018 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer science,Personal mobility,Feature extraction,Supervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Boosting (machine learning),Cluster analysis,Joystick,Machine learning,Gradient boosting,Electronic speed control
Conference
2153-0858
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yifan Huang1218.60
Taiga Mori200.34
Udara E. Manawadu302.03
Mitsuhiro Kamezaki42820.34
Tatsuya Ishihara5659.88
Masahiro Nakano6565.57
Kohjun Koshiji700.34
Naoki Higo800.34
Toshimitsu Tubaki900.34
Shigeki Sugano10689161.38