Design of a balance test instrument with USB interface

Author

Kang, Ni ; Wei, Xuewen ; Song, Aiguo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum. Sci. & Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing

fYear

2008

fDate

25-27 June 2008

Firstpage

7541

Lastpage

7545

Abstract

To improve the performance of balance test instrument in being, a multifunctional balance test instrument with USB interface was designed, which can both realize balance test and rehabilitation training. The paper describes its working principle and architecture of the system. Then the hardware design and module design of software are discussed. The instrument supports hot-plugging due to the USB interface. Experiment shows that the maximum error of gravity center in x and y directions are both plusmn2 mm, and the instrument can reflect the balance ability of human precisely.

Keywords

balances; computerised instrumentation; hardware-software codesign; peripheral interfaces; USB interface; gravity center; hardware design; hot-plugging; multifunctional balance test instrument; rehabilitation training; software module design; Automatic testing; Circuit testing; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Force sensors; Gravity; Hardware; Instruments; Software testing; Universal Serial Bus; USB interface; balance function assessment; balance test instrument; rehabilitation training;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation, 2008. WCICA 2008. 7th World Congress on

Conference_Location

Chongqing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2113-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2114-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2008.4594098

Filename

4594098