A wireless sensor network approach for rehabilitation data collections

Author

Kuo, Chung-Hsien ; Chen, Chun-Tzu ; Chen, Ting-Shuo ; Kuo, Yu-Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

579

Lastpage

584

Abstract

This paper presents a wireless sensor network approach for collecting rehabilitation data with exercising bilateral sanding units. Three wireless sensor nodes are attached to a conventional sanding unit for automatic data collections. Two wireless sensor nodes are desired for a set of sanding hand blocks, and the remaining one is used for the reciprocal exercise platform. Three wireless sensor nodes can be easily attached to conventional sanding units with less wiring and setup efforts for fast realizing data collection functions. Finally, a system prototype is produced in this project, and the bilateral accelerations, exercise strokes and gripping forces are also properly collected to validate our approaches.

Keywords

biomedical communication; patient rehabilitation; wireless sensor networks; automatic data collection; bilateral acceleration; bilateral sanding units; exercise strokes; gripping forces; reciprocal exercise platform; rehabilitation data collection; sanding hand blocks; wireless sensor network approach; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Force; Force measurement; Sonar; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor networks; data collections; medical mechatronics; rehabilitation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0652-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083773

Filename

6083773