A Wireless Flexible Sensorized Insole for Gait Analysis

نویسندگان

  • Simona Crea
  • Marco Donati
  • Stefano Marco Maria De Rossi
  • Calogero M. Oddo
  • Nicola Vitiello
چکیده

This paper introduces the design and development of a novel pressure-sensitive foot insole for real-time monitoring of plantar pressure distribution during walking. The device consists of a flexible insole with 64 pressure-sensitive elements and an integrated electronic board for high-frequency data acquisition, pre-filtering, and wireless transmission to a remote data computing/storing unit. The pressure-sensitive technology is based on an optoelectronic technology developed at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. The insole is a low-cost and low-power battery-powered device. The design and development of the device is presented along with its experimental characterization and validation with healthy subjects performing a task of walking at different speeds, and benchmarked against an instrumented force platform.

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دوره 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014