The rehabilitation monitoring is a method to access and identify human body events and the measurements of dynamic and motion parameters involving the lower part of the body. This significant method is widely used in rehabilitation, sports and health diagnostic towards improving the quality of life. Thus, this research focuses on the development of a portable shoe integrated with wireless MEMS-based and recent microelectronic based system. It goes with the custom design package includes ultrasonic sensor, Inertia Measurement Unit (IMU), Xbee wireless signal transmission, microcontroller and power supply unit. The shoe system was tested and proven to satisfy the human movement analysis based on gait parameters which include foot clearance and foot orientation. From this research, it is found that the system was able to measure the movement parameter wirelessly with ease and efficient. Hence, to conclude this system can be used as the best method for real life rehabilitation monitoring system.
Gait analysis measurement is a method to access and identify gait events and the measurements of dynamic and motion parameters involving the lower part of body. This significant method is widely used in sports, rehabilitation as well as the health diagnostic towards improving the quality of life. Many researchers has proposed various ways to access gait features that require specially set-up motion laboratories, highend video based-motion imaging systems, and professionals to visually observe the gait, this makes current way of accessing gait to be very costly and limited in many ways.Therefore, this research focuses on design and development of a portable shoe integrated wireless MEMS-based and recent microelectronic based foot clearance measurement system that is cheap, portable, real life and can be used by more people. The foot clearance measurement is representing the measurement of the distance between foot and ground. The clearance measured by an ultrasonic sensor. The system was tested and proven to satisfy the gait analysis requirement.
In this paper, a newly approach of human gait analysis for rehabilitation monitoring is presented. We developed a prototype for the gait analysis system and display the gait pattern by using LabVIEW software tool. The analysis is carried out by using the gait analysis hardware (GAH) that complete with sensory board, ultrasonic and wireless communication system. There are two types of system which are Gait Analysis Software Ultrasonic (GAS-US) and Inertial Measurement Unit (GAS-IMU) have been simulated to get minimum foot clearance (MFC) and orientation measurement. For the complete solution with the feature of error correction, both of GAS-US and GAS-IMU have been combined to perform a gait analysis system. The gait patterns that produce by the systems is displayed and achieved the rapid analysis of human gait by using LabVIEW.
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