Title :
Measurement of impacts on legs in walking
Author :
Takahashi, Nobuaki ; Tanaka, Tomohiro ; Matsuda, Yuuki ; Takayama, Shigeru
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents an approach on measurement of impacts absorption level on legs in a walking situation, by using 3-axis accelerometer sensor attached on three essential part of body. To measure this levels of impact on ankle and waist, developed a microcontroller based portable wireless sensing and data acquisition system. Comparing between, both impacts received at ankle to the impact receive on waist can estimate absorption level of impact produced in a walking situation.
Keywords :
accelerometers; biomedical measurement; body area networks; body sensor networks; data acquisition; gait analysis; microcontrollers; 3-axis accelerometer sensor; data acquisition system; impacts absorption level measurement; legs; microcontroller based portable wireless sensing; walking situation; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Foot; Legged locomotion; Sensors; Strain; Zigbee; BAN; ZigBee; accelerometer; dsPIC; strain gauge;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference 2010, Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7642-8
