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#Human Activity Recognition Using Smartphones Dataset

##Tidy Data Version - Darrell Nabors

Original creators of the data set:

Jorge L. Reyes-Ortiz, Davide Anguita, Alessandro Ghio, Luca Oneto. Smartlab - Non Linear Complex Systems Laboratory DITEN - Universit‡ degli Studi di Genova. Via Opera Pia 11A, I-16145, Genoa, Italy.

Tidy-Data Set - Darrell Nabors

activityrecognition@smartlab.ws www.smartlab.ws

###Description

The experiments have been carried out with a group of 30 volunteers within an age bracket of 19-48 years. Each person performed six activities (WALKING, WALKING_UPSTAIRS, WALKING_DOWNSTAIRS, SITTING, STANDING, LAYING) wearing a smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S II) on the waist. Using its embedded accelerometer and gyroscope, we captured 3-axial linear acceleration and 3-axial angular velocity at a constant rate of 50Hz. The experiments have been video-recorded to label the data manually. The obtained dataset has been randomly partitioned into two sets, where 70% of the volunteers was selected for generating the training data and 30% the test data.

The sensor signals (accelerometer and gyroscope) were pre-processed by applying noise filters and then sampled in fixed-width sliding windows of 2.56 sec and 50% overlap (128 readings/window). The sensor acceleration signal, which has gravitational and body motion components, was separated using a Butterworth low-pass filter into body acceleration and gravity. The gravitational force is assumed to have only low frequency components, therefore a filter with 0.3 Hz cutoff frequency was used. From each window, a vector of features was obtained by calculating variables from the time and frequency domain. See 'features_info.txt' for more details.

###For each record it is provided

  • Triaxial acceleration from the accelerometer (total acceleration) and the estimated body acceleration.
  • Triaxial Angular velocity from the gyroscope.
  • A 79-feature vector with time and frequency domain variables.
  • Its activity label.
  • An identifier of the subject who carried out the experiment.

###Features of the Tidy Data Set

The features selected for this database come from the accelerometer and gyroscope 3-axial raw signals tAcc-XYZ and tGyro-XYZ. These time domain signals (prefix 't' to denote time) were captured at a constant rate of 50 Hz. Then they were filtered using a median filter and a 3rd order low pass Butterworth filter with a corner frequency of 20 Hz to remove noise. Similarly, the acceleration signal was then separated into body and gravity acceleration signals (tBodyAcc-XYZ and tGravityAcc-XYZ) using another low pass Butterworth filter with a corner frequency of 0.3 Hz.

Subsequently, the body linear acceleration and angular velocity were derived in time to obtain Jerk signals (tBodyAccJerk-XYZ and tBodyGyroJerk-XYZ). Also the magnitude of these three-dimensional signals were calculated using the Euclidean norm (tBodyAccMag, tGravityAccMag, tBodyAccJerkMag, tBodyGyroMag, tBodyGyroJerkMag).

Finally a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was applied to some of these signals producing fBodyAcc-XYZ, fBodyAccJerk-XYZ, fBodyGyro-XYZ, fBodyAccJerkMag, fBodyGyroMag, fBodyGyroJerkMag. (Note the 'f' to indicate frequency domain signals).

These signals were used to estimate variables of the feature vector for each pattern:
'-XYZ' is used to denote 3-axial signals in the X, Y and Z directions.

  • tBodyAcc-XYZ
  • tGravityAcc-XYZ
  • tBodyAccJerk-XYZ
  • tBodyGyro-XYZ
  • tBodyGyroJerk-XYZ
  • tBodyAccMag
  • tGravityAccMag
  • tBodyAccJerkMag
  • tBodyGyroMag
  • tBodyGyroJerkMag
  • fBodyAcc-XYZ
  • fBodyAccJerk-XYZ
  • fBodyGyro-XYZ
  • fBodyAccMag
  • fBodyAccJerkMag
  • fBodyGyroMag
  • fBodyGyroJerkMag

The set of variables that were estimated from these signals are:

  • mean(): Mean value
  • std(): Standard deviation
  • meanFreq(): Weighted average of the frequency components to obtain a mean frequency

Additional vectors obtained by averaging the signals in a signal window sample. These are used on the angle() variable:

  • gravityMean
  • tBodyAccMean
  • tBodyAccJerkMean
  • tBodyGyroMean
  • tBodyGyroJerkMean

Additional vectors obtained by averaging the signals in a signal window sample. These are used on the angle() variable:

Viewing the Tidy Data Set

The tidy data set can be imported into R by using the command:

  • read.table("tidy_data.txt",header=TRUE)