Walking phases detection on structured terrains by using a shoe-integrated system

Author

Haobang Xu ; Weihai Chen ; Jianhua Wang ; Jingbing Zhang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Autom. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 June 2013

Firstpage

1501

Lastpage

1505

Abstract

Plantar pressure distribution and acceleration measurements are important to detect walking postures and states. This paper presents an in-shoe measurement and analysis system to do the detection. In-shoe information is acquired by the circuit board which is attached to the human´s shank and transmitted to the remote receiver wirelessly. A real-time display and analysis software is developed. Experiments are taken on different terrains to analyze the walking states. The whole system presents a robust method to measure the walking phases and states.

Keywords

acceleration measurement; computerised instrumentation; footwear; gait analysis; pose estimation; position measurement; pressure measurement; acceleration measurement; circuit board; human shank; in-shoe information acquisition; in-shoe measurement; plantar pressure distribution measurement; real-time display software; remote receiver; shoe integrated system; structured terrain; walking phase detection; walking phase measurement; walking posture detection; walking state detection; walking state measurement; wireless transmission; Acceleration; Foot; Footwear; Force; Force sensors; Legged locomotion; acceleration; force sensors; walking phases and states detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2013 8th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2013.6566605

Filename

6566605