Full Body Wearable Instrumented Motion Analysis System

Author

Chong Yu Zheng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechatron. & Biomed. Eng., Univ. Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A full body wearable instrumented system is proposed in this paper. The system consists of a headgear, custom-made lycra suit with embedded wireless sensors and an instrumented shoe insole. In addition, the proposed system will be wireless systems and hence it will not interfere with the movement of the subjects. The initial results provided by the first installment of the shoe insole are comparable to various normaltive gait parameters data. Hence, it is anticipated that the developed system will provide a cost effective alternative to vision systems in analyzing human gait.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; distributed sensors; footwear; gait analysis; intelligent sensors; biomechanical measurement; custom-made lycra suit; embedded wireless sensor; full body wearable instrumented motion analysis system; gait parameters; headgear; instrumented shoe insole; shoe insole; wireless system; Biosensors; Extremities; Footwear; Humans; Instruments; Machine vision; Motion analysis; Sensor systems; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162869

Filename

5162869