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. 2018 Jun 12;9:610. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00610

Table 1.

Summary of the features used on the inertial sensors signals to detect initial contact (Ic) and terminal contact (Tc).

Detection zone Feature
Description
Signal Rule Label
Initial contact (IC) ωp MIN k1 Minimum of the pitch angular velocity
ZeroX k2 First zero-crossing of the pitch angular velocity
MINloc < -100 °/s k3 First local minimum smaller than 100°/s on the pitch angular velocity
ω’p MAX k4 Maximum of the pitch angular acceleration
MIN before k4 k5 Minimum of the pitch angular acceleration before k4
ω”p ZeroX k6 Last zero-crossing of the pitch angular jerk before k4
||ω|| MAX k7 Maximum on the angular velocity norm
Avert MAX k8 Maximum of the vertical acceleration
||A|| MAX k9 Maximum of the acceleration norm
MIN before k9 k10 Minimum of the acceleration norm before k9
MINloc k11 First local minimum of the acceleration norm
||A||’ ZeroX k12 Last zero-crossing of the jerk
Terminal contact (TC) ωp MIN t1 Minimum of the pitch angular velocity
ω’p ZeroX after t1 t2 First zero-crossing of the pitch angular acceleration after t1
ωr ZeroX after t1 t3 First zero-crossing of the roll angular velocity after t1
||ω|| MAX t4 Maximum of the angular velocity norm
Avert MAXloc after t1 t5 First local maximum of the vertical acceleration after t1
Along MIN t6 Minimum of the longitudinal acceleration
Acoro MAXloc after t1 t7 First local maximum of the coronal acceleration after t1
||A|| MAX t8 Maximum of the acceleration norm
MAXloc after t1 t9 First local maximum of the acceleration norm after t1

IC candidates are identified by kj with j ∈{1.. 12} and TC candidates are identified by tj with j ∈{1.. 9}. The features presented in this table were used in the respective detection zone of IC and TC.