Title |
Portable Gait-Event Detection System for FES Locomotion |
Authors |
공세진(Kong, Se-Jin) ; 김철승(Kim, Chul-Seung) ; 박관용(Park, Kwan-Yong) ; 엄광문(Eom, Gwang-Moon) |
Keywords |
FES ; Cycle-to-Cycle Control ; Gait-Event ; Gait Phase ; Portable Gait-Event Detection System |
Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to develop a portable gait-event detection system which is necessary for the cycle-to-cycle FES(functional electrical stimulation) control of locomotion. To make the system portable, we made following modifications in the gait signal measurement system. That is, 1) to make the system wireless using Bluetooth communication, 2) to make the system small-sized and battery-powered by using low power consumption μ P(ATmega8535L). The gait-events were analyzed in off-line at the main computer using ANN(Artificial Neural Network). The Proposed system showed no mis-detection of the gait-events of normal subject and hemiplegia subjects. The performance of the system was better than the previous wired-system. |