TY - GEN
T1 - A wireless human motion monitoring system based on joint angle sensors and smart shoes
AU - Zhang, Wenlong
AU - Tomizuka, Masayoshi
AU - Byl, Nancy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by ASME.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this paper, a wireless human motion monitoring system based on joint angle sensors and smart shoes is introduced. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is employed in a joint angle sensor to estimate the lower-extremity joint rotation in three dimensions. Four pressure sensors are embedded in a smart shoe to measure the distribution of ground contact forces (GCFs). Zigbee and Bluetooth modules are combined with the joint angle sensors and smart shoes respectively to make the whole system wireless. It is shown that gait phase and step length can be calculated based on the raw sensor data for gait analysis. To provide visual feedback to the users, with the consent of Apple Inc., an user interface application is developed on an iPad. Experimental results are obtained from both a healthy subject and a stroke patient for comparison. Some discussions are made about the potential use of this system in a clinical environment.
AB - In this paper, a wireless human motion monitoring system based on joint angle sensors and smart shoes is introduced. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is employed in a joint angle sensor to estimate the lower-extremity joint rotation in three dimensions. Four pressure sensors are embedded in a smart shoe to measure the distribution of ground contact forces (GCFs). Zigbee and Bluetooth modules are combined with the joint angle sensors and smart shoes respectively to make the whole system wireless. It is shown that gait phase and step length can be calculated based on the raw sensor data for gait analysis. To provide visual feedback to the users, with the consent of Apple Inc., an user interface application is developed on an iPad. Experimental results are obtained from both a healthy subject and a stroke patient for comparison. Some discussions are made about the potential use of this system in a clinical environment.
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U2 - 10.1115/DSCC2014-5976
DO - 10.1115/DSCC2014-5976
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84929251491
T3 - ASME 2014 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2014
BT - Industrial Applications; Modeling for Oil and Gas, Control and Validation, Estimation, and Control of Automotive Systems; Multi-Agent and Networked Systems; Control System Design; Physical Human-Robot Interaction; Rehabilitation Robotics; Sensing and Actuation for Control; Biomedical Systems; Time Delay Systems and Stability; Unmanned Ground and Surface Robotics; Vehicle Motion Controls; Vibration Analysis and Isolation; Vibration and Control for Energy Harvesting; Wind Energy
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2014 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2014
Y2 - 22 October 2014 through 24 October 2014
ER -