The Development of the Plantar Pressure Sensor Shoes for Gait Analysis
Author(s) -
Masaki Hirasawa,
Hidetaka Okada,
Makoto Shimojo
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of robotics and mechatronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1883-8049
pISSN - 0915-3942
DOI - 10.20965/jrm.2008.p0289
Subject(s) - biomechanics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , gait , plantar pressure , feeling , gait analysis , bipedalism , pelvis , computer science , constraint (computer aided design) , simulation , psychology , medicine , pressure sensor , engineering , anatomy , mechanical engineering , social psychology
Humans are the only living things which make a erect bipedalism. We are evolving the lower extremity - below a pelvis, and gained the more complicated and more sophisticated gait pattern. In the area of the biomechanics or the rehabilitation, movement analysis instrument has been developed. However, almost of them are attended with the feeling of a constraint, or the measurement place will be limited. We tried to make sensor shoes which can survey operation of the leg without a feeling of a restraint as much as possible.
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