Paper Info
Title
Development of Wearable Gait Evaluation System - A Preliminary Test of Measurement of Joint Angles and Stride Length.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop wearable sensor system for gait evaluation using gyroscopes and accelerometers for application to rehabilitation, healthcare and so on. In this paper, simultaneous measurement of joint angles of the lower limbs and stride length was tested with a prototype of wearable sensor system. The system measured the joint angles using the Kalman filter. Signals from the sensor attached on the foot were used in the stride length estimation detecting foot movement automatically. Joint angles of the lower limbs and the stride length were measured with reasonable accuracy compared to those values measured with optical motion measurement system with healthy subjects. Joint angle patterns measured in 10m walking with a healthy subject were similar to common patterns. High correlation between joint angles at some characteristic points and walking speed were also found adequately from measured data. The system was suggested to be able to detect characteristics of gait.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
BIOSIGNALS 2011
Gait,Gyroscope,Accelerometer,Joint angle,Kalman filter,Stride length
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer vision,STRIDE,Computer science,Wearable computer,Artificial intelligence,Gait evaluation
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.03
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Watanabe16318.68
Hiroki Saito2264.89
Eri Koike392.06
Kazuki Nitta492.06