<div class=""abs_img""><img src=""[disp_template_path]/JRM/abst-image/00270006/13.jpg"" width=""300"" /> Proposed walking training system</div>The number of accidental falls has been increasing among the elderly as society has aged. The main factor is a deteriorating center of balance due to declining physical performance. Another major factor is that the elderly tend to have bowlegged walking and their center of gravity position of the body tend to swing from side to side during walking. To find ways to counteract falls among the elderly, we developed walking training system to treat the gap in the center of balance. We also designed High-Performance Shoes that showed the status of a person’s balance while walking. We also produced walk assistance from the insole in which insole stiffness corresponding to human sole distribution could be changed to correct the person’s walking status. We constructed our High-Performances Shoes to detect pressure distribution during walking. Comparing normal sole distribution patterns and corrected ones, we confirmed that our assistance system helped change the user’s posture, thereby reducing falls among the elderly.
One of the most popular reasons that fall down of elderly person is a gap of the center of balance due to power down of muscle for aging. So we began to product new rehabilitation system that treat a gap of the center of the balance. We produced high-performance training shoes that shows status of walking balance. A method of communication that show status of walking balance is using tablet, Head Mounted Display and WiPort. The software of those devices are android because it is very easy to use. Further, we also produced an evaluation device for walking due to clear basic characteristics of the developed shoes. A source of power of this device is air pressure that we can revive smooth action of human. We try to control this device using method of master-slave control. Master device is goniometer that measure human joint angle. By using the master-slave system, we would not only evaluate high-performance training shoes but also analysis complicated walking of human.
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