Initial Home–Based Foot-Mat Design & Analysis of Bio-Gait Characteristics to Prevent Fall in Elderly People

摘要：

Falls are among the most frequent occasions happening on elderly. Moreover, falls can cause fatal effect on them. One of the issues related to elderly` health, which can incur falls, is the gait characteristics. Thus, it will be useful to set up a monitoring system for home-use to detect the gait characteristics of the elderly. With this daily monitoring system, the changes in gait characteristics, which are leading to proneness of falls and hardly being distinguished by nakedeyes, can be noticed. The reliability of the home-system was also verified with a comparison to Gaitrite. Finally, modeling experiments shows the effectiveness of the monitoring system. In conclusion, a home-system having reasonable price can be produced and is able to provide daily non-intrusive monitoring.

关键词： Slips and falls Gait Aging Foot-mat Monitoring system

作者: K. H. Low Jeffry William Tani Teguh Chandra Ping Wang

作者单位: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University,Singapore 639798

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics(2009 IEEE 机器人与仿生技术国际会议 ROBIO 2009)

会议地点: 桂林

会议语种:英文

页码: 759-764

在线出版日期: 2009-12-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）