Measurement of foot placement and its variability with inertial sensors

Gait and Posture

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 974-980

  Rebula, John R ^a,b   Ojeda, Lauro V ^a   Adamczyk, Peter G ^b   Kuo, Arthur D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Intelligent Prosthetic Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Foot placement; Gait measurement; Inertial sensors; Variability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FOOT; GAIT; HUMAN; LABORATORY DEVICE; MOTION; ORIENTATION; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

FOOT PLACEMENT; GAIT MEASUREMENT; INERTIAL SENSORS; VARIABILITY;

ACCELEROMETRY; ALGORITHMS; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84884973807     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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