Time Series data from wearable sensors to capture the onset of Fatigue in Runners

The data captured came from mounting a single Shimmer3 IMU on the lumbar of 19 recreational runners. The participants were all regular runners and injury free. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the human research ethics committee at University College Dublin.

The data was collected in three segments; in the first, the participant completed a 400m run at a comfortable pace; the second segment consisted of a beep test which acted as the fatiguing protocol for this study; and the last segment where the runner was required to complete the 400m run at their comfortable pace, this time in their fatigued state. The beep test requires the runner to continuously run between two points 20m apart following an audio which produces `beeps' indicating when the person should begin running from one end to the other. The test eventually requires the runner to increase their pace as the interval between the `beeps' reduces as the test progresses. The fatiguing protocol ends when the runner is unable to keep up the increase in pace. The runs were all done on an outdoor running track. The sensor captured acceleration, angular velocity and magnetometer data throughout the three stages of the trials at a sampling rate of 256Hz. The data included here consists of the raw readings from the sensors across the three phases of the run. The data is saved seperately as 'F' for Fatigued, 'NF' for Not Fatigued, and 'BeepTest' for the data collected during the fatiguing process.

For the processed and labelled fatigue and non fatigue data, see:

https://zenodo.org/records/7997851

Kindly cite one of the following papers when using this data:

B. Kathirgamanathan, B. Caulfield and P. Cunningham, "Towards Globalised Models for Exercise Classification using Inertial Measurement Units," 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), Boston, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1–4, doi: 10.1109/BSN58485.2023.10331612

B. Kathirgamanathan, T. Nguyen, G. Ifrim, B. Caulfield, P. Cunningham. Explaining Fatigue in Runners using Time Series Analysis on Wearable Sensor Data, XKDD 2023: 5th International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining, ECML PKDD, 2023, http://xkdd2023.isti.cnr.it/papers/223.pdf