• DocumentCode
    3720688
  • Title

    Modeling human body walking voltage by human body capacitance

  • Author

    Yu-nan Han;Jun-chao She;Zheng-lin Wen;David Pommerenke;Lin Dai

  • Author_Institution
    School of information science and technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    390
  • Lastpage
    393
  • Abstract
    Human body potential caused by walking on floors has been modeled by a RC equivalent circuit. Based on the measurement of the charging voltage by human body walking, the RC equivalent model has been deduced and the influence of the parameters on the human bod voltage has also been analyzed. The human body equivalent circuit corresponds with the RC network. As a consequence, an exponential function can be obtained to describe the walking voltage. The model of human body voltage charging by walking combines two main processes: an exponential increase of human body potential due to charging by the soles repeatedly detaching from the floor during walking, and for discharging, the human body potential has an exponential retention. The time constant is determined as a series combination of body resistance and capacitance relative to the ground. During the walking process, the periodic changes of walking paces cause the periodic changes of the body capacitance to ground, then the human walking voltage can be determined by the capacitance. The walking voltage modeled has reached agreement with experimental data.
  • Keywords
    "Voltage measurement","Legged locomotion","Analytical models","Modems","Electronic equipment","Humidity measurement","Capacitors"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Environmental Electromagnetics (CEEM), 2015 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-9444-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CEEM.2015.7368712
  • Filename
    7368712