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Title
A Truly In-shoe Force Measurement System
Description
In this work, the development of a novel and a truly in-shoe force measurement system is reported. The device consists of a shoe insole with six thin film piezoresistive sensors and the main circuit board. The piezoresistive sensors are used for the measurement of plantar pressure during daily human activities. The motion sensor mounted on the main circuit board captures kinematic data. In addition, the main circuit board is responsible for the wireless transmission of the data from all the sensors in real-time using BLE protocol. It is housed within the midsole of the shoe, under the medial arch of the foot. The real-time quantitative data and its analyses, enables athletic performance evaluation, biomedical ailment detection, and everyday fitness tracking. A test subject walked 20 steps on a flat surface at a comfortable speed wearing a shoe fitted with the insole and the main circuit board. Measurements were captured using a BLE enabled laptop and the test results were validated for accuracy. From the real-time data captured, the number of steps walked, the speed and the plantar pressure applied can be clearly established. Moreover, additional kinematic data from the motion sensor was captured. Further processing of kinematic data using techniques such as machine learning is essential to get meaningful inferences.
Date Created
2018
Contributors
- Badarinath, Abhishek (Author)
- Kiaei, Sayfe (Thesis advisor)
- Bakkaloglu, Bertan (Committee member)
- Kitchen, Jennifer (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
42 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.48462
Level of coding
minimal
Note
Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2018
System Created
- 2018-04-30 01:09:52
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 2 months ago
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