A Multi-Modal Dataset for Ground Reaction Force Estimation Using Consumer Wearable Sensors
arXiv:2603.28784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This Data Descriptor presents a fully open, multi-modal dataset for estimating vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) from consumer-grade Apple Watch sensors with laboratory force plate ground truth. Ten healthy adults aged 26--41 years performed five activities: walking, jogging, running, heel drops, and step drops, while wearing two Apple Watches positioned at the left wrist and waist. The dataset contains 492 validated trials with time-aligned inertial measurement unit (IMU) recordings (approximately 100 Hz) and force plate vGRF (Force\_Z, 1000 Hz). The release includes raw and processed time series, trial-level metadata, quality-control flags, and machine-readable data dictionaries. Trial-level matching manifests link recordings across mod
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Abstract:This Data Descriptor presents a fully open, multi-modal dataset for estimating vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) from consumer-grade Apple Watch sensors with laboratory force plate ground truth. Ten healthy adults aged 26--41 years performed five activities: walking, jogging, running, heel drops, and step drops, while wearing two Apple Watches positioned at the left wrist and waist. The dataset contains 492 validated trials with time-aligned inertial measurement unit (IMU) recordings (approximately 100 Hz) and force plate vGRF (Force_Z, 1000 Hz). The release includes raw and processed time series, trial-level metadata, quality-control flags, and machine-readable data dictionaries. Trial-level matching manifests link recordings across modalities using stable identifiers. Of the 492 validated trials, 395 are triad-complete, containing wrist, waist, and force plate data, enabling cross-sensor analyses and reproducible model evaluation. Dataset quality is characterised through a three-phase cross-sensor plausibility and consistency framework, repeatability analysis of peak vGRF (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.871--0.990), and systematic checks of force ranges and trial completeness. Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis showed that correlation-based validation metrics were robust to single-sample timing perturbations at the IMU sampling resolution. All data are released under CC BY 4.0, with analysis scripts archived alongside the dataset and mirrored on GitHub. This resource supports reproducible research in wearable biomechanics, benchmarking of machine learning models for vGRF estimation, and investigation of sensor placement effects using widely available consumer wearables.
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Signal Processing (eess.SP); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.28784 [eess.SP]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.28784
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From: Parvin Ghaffarzadeh [view email] [v1] Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:53:49 UTC (3,996 KB)
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