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Wearable Feet Pressure Sensor for Human Gait and Falling Diagnosis
| العنوان: | Wearable Feet Pressure Sensor for Human Gait and Falling Diagnosis |
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| المؤلفون: | Vytautas Bucinskas, Andrius Dzedzickis, Juste Rozene, Jurga Subaciute-Zemaitiene, Igoris Satkauskas, Valentinas Uvarovas, Rokas Bobina, Inga Morkvenaite-Vilkonciene |
| المصدر: | Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 15, p 5240 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Chemical technology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | feet pressure sensor, human gait, falling diagnosis, Chemical technology, TP1-1185 |
| الوصف: | Human falls pose a serious threat to the person’s health, especially for the elderly and disease-impacted people. Early detection of involuntary human gait change can indicate a forthcoming fall. Therefore, human body fall warning can help avoid falls and their caused injuries for the skeleton and joints. A simple and easy-to-use fall detection system based on gait analysis can be very helpful, especially if sensors of this system are implemented inside the shoes without causing a sensible discomfort for the user. We created a methodology for the fall prediction using three specially designed Velostat®-based wearable feet sensors installed in the shoe lining. Measured pressure distribution of the feet allows the analysis of the gait by evaluating the main parameters: stepping rhythm, size of the step, weight distribution between heel and foot, and timing of the gait phases. The proposed method was evaluated by recording normal gait and simulated abnormal gait of subjects. The obtained results show the efficiency of the proposed method: the accuracy of abnormal gait detection reached up to 94%. In this way, it becomes possible to predict the fall in the early stage or avoid gait discoordination and warn the subject or helping companion person. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 21155240 1424-8220 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/15/5240; https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8220 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/s21155240 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/3b06fea45395488e957120c608850d89 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.3b06fea45395488e957120c608850d89 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 21155240 14248220 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/s21155240 |