An intelligent 3D force platform for plantar pressure distribution measurement

Author

Wang, Huijing ; Liu, Junyao ; Chen, Sanfeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Applic., Shenzhen Inst. of Inf. Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2009

fDate

9-12 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

4479

Lastpage

4483

Abstract

In this paper, the development of a novel 3D Platform system suitable for the measurement of human foot pressure distribution has been presented. The system measures plantar pressure between the foot and force platform during dynamic movement in real-time, which can be used in clinical gait analysis. It essentially consists of a 3D force measuring platform, and user-friendly software to graph and analyze the data. Meanwhile, a new type of Butterworth low-pass filter is designed to employ for the signals preconditioning, the interference signals of the pressure sensor signal can be effectively filtered. Also, the results obtained on the performance of the system are included.

Keywords

Butterworth filters; computerised instrumentation; filtering theory; force measurement; gait analysis; human computer interaction; pressure measurement; Butterworth low pass filter; clinical gait analysis; dynamic movement; human foot pressure distribution measurement; intelligent 3D force platform; interference signal; plantar pressure distribution measurement; pressure sensor signal; user friendly software; Anthropometry; Data analysis; Foot; Force measurement; Force sensors; Humans; Low pass filters; Pressure measurement; Real time systems; Software measurement; 3D Platform system; Butterworth low-pass filter; Plantar Pressure Distribution; signals preconditioning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation, 2009. ICMA 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changchun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2692-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2693-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2009.5244849

Filename

5244849