Analysis of the slip-related falls and fall prevention with an intelligent shoe system

2010 3rd IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 616-620

  Onodera, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Takeshi ^b   Yamanouchi, Hiroteru ^b   Nagamori, Kazumasa ^b   Yano, Masaru ^b   Hirata, Yasuhisa ^b   Hokkirigawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization Sendai Nishitaga Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALL PREVENTION; FORWARD SLIP; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SHOE SOLES; SINGLE-SUPPORT PHASE; SLIDING FRICTION; WHOLE-BODY CENTER OF MASS; ZERO MOMENT POINT;

ROBOTICS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 78650381805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5628030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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