An ambulatory system for gait monitoring based on wireless sensorized insoles

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 16589-16613

  González, Iván ^a   Fontecha, Jesús ^a   Hervás, Ramón ^a   Bravo, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Fuzzy inference; Gait analysis; Gait monitoring; Gait phase detection; Sensorized insole; Wearable sensor

Indexed keywords

FUZZY INFERENCE; GAIT ANALYSIS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MONITORING; MOTION ESTIMATION; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; AMBULATORY SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; GAIT ASSESSMENTS; GAIT PHASE DETECTION; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC CLASSIFIERS; SENSORIZED INSOLE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84940192923     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150716589     Document Type: Article

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