Journal
SENSORS
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s22051731
Keywords
prosthetics; wearable sensors; control; gait segmentation; optoelectronic sensors; inertial measurement unit
Funding
- (Vigorso di Budrio, Italy)
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This study presents a commercial foot prosthesis equipped with a multimodal sensory system, which accurately detects heel strike and toe-off events by using optoelectronic pressure sensors and IMU sensors. The performance of the system was compared with force platforms and a motion capture system, showing good accuracy in measuring ground reaction force and center of pressure.
Timely and reliable identification of control phases is functional to the control of a powered robotic lower-limb prosthesis. This study presents a commercial energy-store-and-release foot prosthesis instrumented with a multimodal sensory system comprising optoelectronic pressure sensors (PS) and IMU. The performance was verified with eight healthy participants, comparing signals processed by two different algorithms, based on PS and IMU, respectively, for real-time detection of heel strike (HS) and toe-off (TO) events and an estimate of relevant biomechanical variables such as vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) and center of pressure along the sagittal axis (CoPy). The performance of both algorithms was benchmarked against a force platform and a marker-based stereophotogrammetric motion capture system. HS and TO were estimated with a time error lower than 0.100 s for both the algorithms, sufficient for the control of a lower-limb robotic prosthesis. Finally, the CoPy computed from the PS showed a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.97 (0.02) with the same variable computed through the force platform.
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