BAKBAK, Sibel Süleyman Demirel University - Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences - Department of MechanicalEngineering, Turkey , KAYACAN, Ramazan Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi - Mühendislik-Mimarlık-Fakültesi - Makine Mühendisliği Bölümü, Turkey

Design of a Laboratory Independent Posture and Gait Analysis System (POGASYS)

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In the first part of our study, a posture and gait analysis system, shortly called POGASYS, is developed to be used in quantifying the gait of the individuals, and tested with healthy individuals to obtain their gait parameters. POGASYS has two main components: The first component is the shoe module having four different types of installed sensors and mounted on the shoes of the individuals, and the second component is the computer module with a user friendly software that is used to obtain the data from the sensors wirelessly and to analyze it. Morethan fifty gait parameters can be determined by POGASYS to utilize for the quantification of the diseases affecting the individuals’ gait patterns. In the second part of our study, the gait parameters will be examined to decide what parameters among all of the parameters can be used to differentiate the hemiplegic patients from the healthy individuals using POGASYS software. In this paper, which is the first part of our study, the designs of POGASYS hardware and software, the processes to determine the principal gait parameters and the results of the tests performed by POGASYS are discussed.

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Gait analysis. Body , worn sensor. system. Balance and posture. disorders. Force and inertia. measurements.

Journal Of Natural an‎d Applied Sciences

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