Towards a mobile motion analysis laboratory: improvements in wearable motion capture and force measurement

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Title Towards a mobile motion analysis laboratory: improvements in wearable motion capture and force measurement
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Engineering
Department Mechanical Engineering
Author Lincoln, Lucas Samuel
Date 2012-05
Description Gait analysis is an important tool for diagnosing a wide variety of disorders, with its increasingly accepted benefits culminating in the widespread adoption of motion analysis laboratories. A modern analysis laboratory consists of a multicamera marker tracking system for 3D reconstruction of kinematics and multiple high-fidelity load transducers to determine ground reaction force and enable inverse-dynamics for biomechanics. There is a need for an alternative motion analysis system which does not require a fixed laboratory setting and is lower in cost; freeing the motion capture from the laboratory and reducing the technology costs would enable long-term, home-based, natural monitoring of subjects. This thesis describes two contributions to the end goal of an inexpensive, mobile, insole-based motion analysis laboratory. First is the application of an inertialmeasurement-unit calibration routine and zero-velocity-update algorithm to improve position and orientation tracking. Second is the development, from basic sensor to prototype, of an insole capable of measuring 3 degree-of-freedom ground reaction force. These contributions represent a proof-of-concept that quantitative gait analysis, complete with dynamics, is possible with an insole-based system.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Gait; Haptics; Kinematics; Optical; Sensor; Tactile; Motion analysis laboratory; Motion capture
Subject LCSH Human mechanics; Motion; Gait in humans
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Science
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Lucas Samuel Lincoln 2012
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 11,729,616 bytes
Identifier us-etd3/id/648
Source Original in Marriott Library Special Collections, QP6.5 2012 .L56.
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tf0c4s
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