Title
A novel wireless instrumented shoe for ground reaction forces analysis in humanoids
Abstract
The measurement of ground reaction forces (GRFs) is crucial in the biomechanical analysis of gait and other motor activities. Current humanoid robots mimic some of the biological adaptation methods found in humans. Therefore, studying the GRFs in these robots allows not only to improve their overall performance, but also to extrapolate possible techniques for human walking rehabilitation. The balance of a humanoid robot may be compromised when it walks and, even more, when it walks across multiple grounds with different frictions. This paper presents a system to be seamlessly installed on a walking humanoid robot to measure normal and tangential ground reaction forces. The proposed solution is a cost-effective, lightweight and wirelessly instrumented shoe (ITshoe) for real-time measuring of the GRFs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICARSC.2018.8374157
2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Force sensors,Ground reaction forces,Humanoid robot,Instrumented shoe
Wireless,Gait,Simulation,Computer science,Ground reaction force,Robot,Biological adaptation,Humanoid robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2573-9360
978-1-5386-5222-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luís Almeida137151.73
Vítor M. F. Santos29521.33
Filipe M. T. Silva36514.07