Assessment of lower limb prosthesis through wearable sensors and thermography

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 5041-5055

  Cutti, Andrea Giovanni ^a   Perego, Paolo ^b   Fusca, Marcello C ^b   Sacchetti, Rinaldo ^a   Andreoni, Giuseppe ^b  

^a INAIL Centro Protesi   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amputee; Gait; Prosthesis assessment; Thermography; Wearable temperature and humidity sensors

Indexed keywords

SENSORS; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

AMPUTEE; GAIT; LOWER LIMB PROSTHESIS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY SENSOR; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL IMAGING CAMERAS;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS;

EID: 84896482263     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140305041     Document Type: Article

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