A mechatronic system mounted on insole for analyzing human gait

Author

Giovanelli, Davide ; Giovanelli, Nicola ; Taboga, Paolo ; Barjuei, Erfan Shojaei ; Boscariol, Paolo ; Vidoni, Renato ; Gasparetto, Alessandro ; Lazzer, Stefano

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron. e Inf., Univ. of Padova, Padua, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

817

Lastpage

822

Abstract

In this paper, designing and fabricating a mechatronic system for analyzing exerted forces by human gait has been described. Force sensitive resistors (FSRs) sensors as well as Arduino Due (Microcontroller) have been utilized in the system which is mounted on a shoe insole. Furthermore, the applied Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) programming technique in microcontroller and signal conditioning circuit design has been explained. The mechatronic system has been tuned and calibrated through the experimental tests and some of the important results have been presented and discussed.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; calibration; footwear; force sensors; gait analysis; interrupts; mechatronics; medical control systems; microcontrollers; resistors; signal conditioning circuits; telemedicine; Arduino Due microcontroller; FSR sensor; ISR programming; exerted force analysis; force sensitive resistor; human gait analysis; interrupt service routine programming; mechatronic system calibration; mechatronic system design; mechatronic system fabrication; mechatronic system mounting; mechatronic system tuning; microcontroller design; shoe insole mounting; signal conditioning circuit design; Calibration; Data acquisition; Force; Mechatronics; Microcontrollers; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Arduino Due; Force sensitive resistors (FSRs); force platform; gait; insole;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), 2014 Second RSI/ISM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRoM.2014.6991005

Filename

6991005