Gait planning for effective rehabilitation - From gait study to application in clinical rehabilitation

Author

Lim, H.B. ; Hoon, K.H. ; Soh, Y.C. ; Tow, Adela ; Low, K.H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. & Aerosp. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

23-26 June 2009

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

276

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a gait generation concept for rehabilitation, in which GaitGen, a gait pattern generator is introduced. The concept of GaitGen will be explained. GaitGen aims to provide objective gait planning for rehabilitation. Gait-related studies have been carried out for the validation and enhancement of GaitGen. Motion capture system has been used for gait database collection. An established equation of normalized gait parameters has been studied via GAITRite. The paper ends with a summary of results, findings, and future works.

Keywords

gait analysis; handicapped aids; legged locomotion; medical robotics; orthopaedics; orthotics; patient rehabilitation; GaitGen; gait pattern generator; gait planning; motion capture system; rehabilitation; Aerospace engineering; Automatic control; Control systems; Databases; Equations; Helium; Humans; Legged locomotion; Rehabilitation robotics; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rehabilitation Robotics, 2009. ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto International Conference Center

ISSN

1945-7898

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3788-7

Electronic_ISBN

1945-7898

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209599

Filename

5209599