Measuring system of a 3D force platform for plantar pressure distribution

Author

Wang, Huijing ; Chen, Sanfeng ; Liu, Junyao

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

5-7 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

906

Lastpage

910

Abstract

Spatial plantar pressure measurement system were investigated to extract features of gait in clinical podiatry. In this paper, the design of a novel 3D platform system suitable for the measurement of human foot pressure distribution is proposed. This consists of a 3D force measuring platform equipped with sensor array, and user-friendly software to graph and analyze the data. Also, a proposed Butterworth low-pass filter for the signals preconditioning is employed effectively. The article describes the original concept and the performance of the system. Meanwhile, the extracted gait parameters are indicated in the end.

Keywords

Butterworth filters; feature extraction; gait analysis; low-pass filters; pressure measurement; sensor arrays; 3D force platform; 3D platform system; Butterworth filter; clinical podiatry; extracted gait parameters; feature extraction; human foot pressure distribution; low-pass filter; plantar pressure distribution; sensor array; signal preconditioning; spatial plantar pressure measurement; Anthropometry; Data mining; Feature extraction; Foot; Force measurement; Force sensors; Humans; Pressure measurement; Sensor arrays; Software measurement; 3D Platform system; Butterworth low-pass filter; Extracted gait parameters; Plantar Pressure Distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation and Logistics, 2009. ICAL '09. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4794-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4795-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAL.2009.5262794

Filename

5262794