A new instrument for biomechanical measurement

Author

Wei Chen ; Yimin Zhou ; Guoqing Xu ; Qi Zhang ; Ting Qu ; Fang Yuan ; Dan Huang ; Yulong Sun

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Inst. of Adv. Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 July 2014

Firstpage

1223

Lastpage

1227

Abstract

An instrument to measure the force and displacement for biomechanical measurement of soft tissues is introduced. It consists of a motor, a load cell, a differential variable reluctance transducer (DVRT) and a signal processing module. The force and displacement can be obtained simultaneously and directly from voltage signal collection without manually zero adjustment. Besides, they can be displayed on the screen with readable format and have the ability to test the force in omnidirectional direction. Experiment have been performed to test the accuracy and flexibility of the instrument.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; displacement measurement; force measurement; medical signal processing; transducers; DVRT; biomechanical instrument; biomechanical measurement; differential variable reluctance transducer; displacement measurement; force measurement; load cell; omnidirectional direction; signal processing module; soft tissues; voltage signal collection; Biological tissues; Biomechanics; Force; Force measurement; Instruments; Software; Strain; Biomechanical instrument; Force and displacement measurement; Human interface design; Signal processing module;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation (ICIA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hailar

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICInfA.2014.6932835

Filename

6932835