The Development of the Plantar Pressure Sensor Shoes for Gait  Analysis

Masaki Hirasawa; Hidetaka Okada; Makoto Shimojo

doi:10.20965/jrm.2008.p0289

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JRM Vol.20 No.2 pp. 289-295

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2008.p0289

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The Development of the Plantar Pressure Sensor Shoes for Gait Analysis

Masaki Hirasawa, Hidetaka Okada, and Makoto Shimojo

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

Received:

September 29, 2007

Accepted:

December 17, 2007

Published:

April 20, 2008

Keywords:

plantar pressure, ankle joint torque, sensor shoes, gait analysis, kinetics

Abstract

Humans are the only living things which make a erect bipedalism. We are evolving the lower extremity - below a pelvis, and gained the more complicated and more sophisticated gait pattern.
In the area of the biomechanics or the rehabilitation, movement analysis instrument has been developed. However, almost of them are attended with the feeling of a constraint, or the measurement place will be limited.
We tried to make sensor shoes which can survey operation of the leg without a feeling of a restraint as much as possible.

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M. Hirasawa, H. Okada, and M. Shimojo, “The Development of the Plantar Pressure Sensor Shoes for Gait Analysis,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.20 No.2, pp. 289-295, 2008.

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[1] [1] “The human measurement handbook,” AIST, pp. 4-61, 2003.

[2] [2] A. E. Michiyoshi, “The gait and running, Journal of health,” physical education and recreation, Vol.50, pp. 4-5, 2000.

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