期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
卷 127, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110687
关键词
Gait analysis; Wearable sensors; Pressure insoles; Locomotion; Gait events
资金
- MOBILISE-D (EU H2020, EFPIA, and IMI 2 Joint Undertaking) [820820]
- UK EPSRC [K03877X/1, S032940/1]
- NIHR Sheffield BRC
The study introduced and validated a method for accurate detection of gait events using instrumented insoles with pressure sensing elements. Results demonstrated that the method had good accuracy and consistency, meeting the requirements for gait analysis.
The accurate identification of initial and final foot contacts is a crucial prerequisite for obtaining a reliable estimation of spatio-temporal parameters of gait. Well-accepted gold standard techniques in this field are force platforms and instrumented walkways, which provide a direct measure of the foot-ground reaction forces. Nonetheless, these tools are expensive, non-portable and restrict the analysis to laboratory settings. Instrumented insoles with a reduced number of pressure sensing elements might overcome these limitations, but a suitable method for gait events identification has not been adopted yet. The aim of this paper was to present and validate a method aiming at filling such void, as applied to a system including two insoles with 16 pressure sensing elements (element area = 310 mm(2)), sampling at 100 Hz. Gait events were identified exploiting the sensor redundancy and a cluster-based strategy. The method was tested in the laboratory against force platforms on nine healthy subjects for a total of 801 initial and final contacts. Initial and final contacts were detected with low average errors of (about 20 ms and 10 ms, respectively). Similarly, the errors in estimating stance duration and step duration averaged 20 ms and <10 ms, respectively. By selecting appropriate thresholds, the method may be easily applied to other pressure insoles featuring similar requirements.
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