Research Article
Evaluation of wearable KPF goniometers in knee flexion-extension measurement for daily-life applications.
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2261613, author={Nicola Carbonaro and Federico Lorussi and Alessandro Tognetti and Danilo De Rossi}, title={Evaluation of wearable KPF goniometers in knee flexion-extension measurement for daily-life applications.}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments}, volume={2}, number={8}, publisher={ACM}, journal_a={FIEE}, year={2015}, month={12}, keywords={wearable technologies, textile goniometers, imus,}, doi={10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2261613} }- Nicola Carbonaro
Federico Lorussi
Alessandro Tognetti
Danilo De Rossi
Year: 2015
Evaluation of wearable KPF goniometers in knee flexion-extension measurement for daily-life applications.
FIEE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2261613
Abstract
Rehabilitation for stroke survivor is an important activity to recover daily-life functional performances. A daily life monitoring system composed of different subsystem was developed within the INTERACTION EU project. Sensing trousers using a couple of IMUs integrated on the thighs and shanks and a textile goniometers in the knee region was designed to detect kinematic asymmetries between affected and unaffected legs in gait/ambulation. In this study we compared the performances of our textile goniometer based on KPF materials with a couple of IMUs for the evaluation of knee flexion-extension. We used a statistical approach (T-student test) to verify that the signal gathered from the goniometer has the same information of the one extracted from the IMUs. These results demonstrate a reliable performance of our sensors, which have the advantage to be more flexible, lighter and less expensive than current wearable technologies.
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