TY - GEN
T1 - Use of an ultra-miniaturized IMU-based motion capture system for objective evaluation and assessment of walking skills
AU - Zecca, M.
AU - Saito, K.
AU - Sessa, S.
AU - Bartolomeo, L.
AU - Lin, Z.
AU - Cosentino, S.
AU - Ishii, H.
AU - Ikai, T.
AU - Takanishi, A.
PY - 2013/10/31
Y1 - 2013/10/31
N2 - The increasing age of the world population is posing new challenges to our society, such as how to keep this aging population healthy and active despite of the age. In recent years, there has been a lot of interest for gait analysis for rehabilitation purposes as well as for performance assessment of this aging population. While current systems work well, they still have several limitations. Cost, need for specialized personnel, need to be used in a research center, and sporadic measurement prevent these systems from being widely used. The authors propose the use of extremely miniaturized, portable measurement systems, which can be worn by the users during their everyday life, and can monitor their gait over a long timespan. This paper presents the preliminary experiments with such a system.
AB - The increasing age of the world population is posing new challenges to our society, such as how to keep this aging population healthy and active despite of the age. In recent years, there has been a lot of interest for gait analysis for rehabilitation purposes as well as for performance assessment of this aging population. While current systems work well, they still have several limitations. Cost, need for specialized personnel, need to be used in a research center, and sporadic measurement prevent these systems from being widely used. The authors propose the use of extremely miniaturized, portable measurement systems, which can be worn by the users during their everyday life, and can monitor their gait over a long timespan. This paper presents the preliminary experiments with such a system.
KW - Gait Phase Detection
KW - Gait Rehabilitation
KW - Inertial Sensor
KW - Walking pattern
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610642
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610642
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 24110829
AN - SCOPUS:84886558062
SN - 9781457702167
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 4883
EP - 4886
BT - 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013
T2 - 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013
Y2 - 3 July 2013 through 7 July 2013
ER -