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GaitPilot Analysis Dashboard Guide

Welcome to the GaitPilot Analysis Dashboard! The web platform provides walkers, coaches, and their followers with deep-dive forensic analytics, 3D digital twin playback, and multi-shoe longitudinal telemetry.

The Analysis Dashboard is hosted securely in the cloud and accessible from any desktop, laptop, or tablet browser at: https://gaitpilot.com/dashboard/

🔒 Athlete-Controlled Session Access & Ingestion

A core principle of the GaitPilot cloud ecosystem is that telemetry is strictly athlete-controlled:

  • Walker-Initiated Uploads: Recorded workouts and telemetry streams are uploaded exclusively from the walker's mobile application. Outside reviewers or coaches cannot initiate a session, start recordings, or modify historical records remotely.
  • Open Review with Indelible Storage: Reviewers can explore uploaded sessions, scrub 3D kinematic avatars, and inspect cadence curves without logging in.
  • Protected Deletion & Coaching Notes: Deleting sessions and authoring permanent clinical annotations are restricted to authenticated coach and administrator credentials, keeping session archives permanently safe from unauthorized alteration.

🗺️ 1. Route & Environment (Session Routing & Environmental Context)

What it is: The default landing workstation providing macro-level route, elevation, and terrain mapping alongside environmental conditions and footwear metadata.

Best used for: Establishing geographic, terrain, and environmental context (grade, surface type, barometric shifts, ambient temperature) before diving into granular joint kinematics. In gait analysis and coaching, deviations in symmetry or ground impact forces cannot be properly evaluated without knowing whether an athlete was negotiating an incline, encountering adverse weather, or wearing worn footwear.

Key Features:

  • Interactive GPS Course Mapping: Inspect the athlete's exact outdoor route with continuous timeline playback and speed-coded path tracing.
  • Environmental & Hardware Snapshot: Live overlay card displaying ambient temperature, barometric pressure, weather conditions, and the specific shoe registered from the Smart Shoe Vault.
  • Course Elevation & Gradient Analysis: Correlate cadence shifts and braking forces directly with uphill and downhill grade changes.
  • Synchronized Annotation Timelines: Review automated hazard markers and author permanent Coach annotations directly synchronized with the session's native PhysioNet Format 16 records.
  • Side-by-Side 3D Preview: View the animated 3D skeletal avatar directly alongside the GPS track to maintain full situational awareness during route scrubbing.

🔬 2. Kinematics & Avatar (3D Digital Twin)

What it is: A forensic, 3D skeletal analysis and movement playback workstation accessed via the Kinematics & Avatar tab.

Best used for: Diagnosing how a walker moved with sub-millisecond precision. It animates a high-frequency (100Hz) 3D avatar using real-time IMU streams across the entire five-node kinematic chain: the feet, sacrum, and wrists. This isolates full-body movement dynamics, including: * Pelvic Obliquity & Sacral Tilt: Pelvic drop, Trendelenburg compensation, and forward trunk lean. * Foot Ground Clearance & Strike Angles: Left-vs-right foot strike elevation, heel rocker roll, and pronation/supination symmetry. * Upper-Body Kinetic Sling (Wrists & Arms): Bilateral arm swing amplitude, cross-body rhythm, and shoulder-pelvis rotational opposition. In competitive race walking and Nordic walking, upper-body drive governs cadence stability; in clinical rehabilitation, arm swing symmetry is a critical early marker of gait recovery and fall avoidance.

Why it matters: It provides coaches and physical therapists with objective motion diagnostics. A coach can analyze a session and determine: "Cadence dropped on the final mile because left arm swing amplitude decreased by 18%, causing compensatory over-rotation in the pelvis and asymmetric braking forces."

Key Features:

  • Interactive 3D Avatar: View movements from Posterior (Behind), Sagittal (Side), or Transverse (Top) angles.
  • Granular Playback Controls: Scrutinize specific steps with accessible five-second rewind, five-second fast-forward, continuous timeline scrubbing, and timestamp bookmarks.
  • Recorded Mode Header Indicator: Displays the walker's recorded walking mode and session mode in the top navigation bar (for example, Walk: Race Walker | TRAINING_LIVE), complete with screen-reader accessible ARIA labels.
  • Automatic Default Coaching Lens: Automatically initializes the post-session review lens to match the athlete's recorded walk mode (e.g., sessions recorded in Race Walk mode automatically open into the Race Walk Lens with pelvic tilt and obliquity focus).
  • Dynamic Biomechanical Coaching Lenses: Switch post-session review lenses on the fly between Clinical Rehab, Race Walk, Occupational & Tactical, and Fitness Walk profiles. The profile active during the physical workout is highlighted with a green Recorded Walk Mode badge.
  • Live Telemetry Gauges: High-contrast readouts for Pelvic Tilt, Pelvic Yaw, Foot Clearance, Shoe Roll, and Impact Shock. Visual thresholds highlight asymmetry (Green = Optimal > 95%, Yellow = Minor Imbalance, Red = Significant Asymmetry < 85%).
  • Missing Channel Handling: Gauges render *** (0% bar width) when channels are unmeasured or disconnected, preventing artificial zero-degree distortions.
  • Biomechanical Diagnostic Feed: Instant timestamped annotations generated by deterministic DSP signal processing, sorted and highlighted based on the selected coaching lens.

🎯 3. Biomechanical Coaching Profile Lenses

In post-walk forensic review, coaches and walkers do not need to re-run complex signal processing to view data through different clinical or athletic perspectives. When a session loads, the dashboard automatically selects the lens matching the walker's recorded walk mode and tags it with a Recorded Walk Mode badge. Selecting any Biomechanical Coaching Profile dynamically re-configures the dashboard's diagnostic lens:

  • Clinical Rehab Profile:
  • Primary Metric Focus: Left/Right Shoe Roll and Stance ZUPT (Zero-Velocity Update) balance.
  • Avatar Spotlighting: Highlights the knee and ankle joints, foot clearance elevation, and bilateral contact plates with green and cyan symmetry indicators.
  • Diagnostic Feed: Automatically sorts the feed to prioritize antalgic limp, bilateral asymmetry, and stance duration disparities.
  • Race Walk Profile:
  • Primary Metric Focus: Pelvic Tilt (sacral pitch) and Pelvic Yaw (sacral obliquity and transverse rotation) with strict competitive tolerances.
  • Avatar Spotlighting: Spotlights the sacrum/pelvis and spinal column with vivid golden accent rings and obliquity vectors to evaluate continuous ground contact compliance.
  • Diagnostic Feed: Prioritizes pelvic rotation drops, flight-phase rule flags, and cadence deceleration events.
  • Occupational & Tactical Profile:
  • Primary Metric Focus: Truncal forward slump (pitch angle) and heel strike impact shock (G-forces) under loaded pack conditions.
  • Avatar Spotlighting: Spotlights spinal curvature and forward lean vectors in amber alert styling to identify compensatory posture breakdown.
  • Diagnostic Feed: Prioritizes posture slump hazards, deceleration braking peaks, and severe impact shock alerts.
  • Fitness Walk Profile:
  • Primary Metric Focus: Balanced full-body kinetic wireframe prioritizing cadence rhythm, stride efficiency, and aerobic pacing continuity.

The Analysis Dashboard is designed specifically for post-session forensic review. For real-time workout tracking and live communication during an active walk, explore our specialized companion guides:

  • Coach Live Guide: Learn how remote coaches stream live telemetry during active workouts and send audio drill cues directly into the walker's earbuds.
  • Universal TV Companion Guide: Set up ambient, zero-install 16:9 widescreen monitoring on any living room television or clinic monitor.
  • Guardian Dashboard Guide: Understand how guardians monitor real-time safety, emergency watchdog alerts, and live GPS tracks.
  • Mobile App Guide: Discover how athletes configure sensor pairings, start walks, and manage their cloud sync settings.