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The main objective of this work is to develop a computerized system based on instrumented shoes to characterize and analyze the human gait. The system uses instrumented shoes connected to a personal computer to provide the 3D Ground Reaction Forces (GRF) patterns of the human gait. This system will allow a much more objective understanding of the clinical evolution of patients, enabling a more effective functional rehabilitation of a patient’s gait. The sample rate of the acquisition system is 100 Hz and the system uses wireless communication.
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The Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and COMPETE 2020 program are gratefully acknowledged for funding this work with PTDC/EEI-AUT/5141/2014 (Automatic Adaptation of a Humanoid Robot Gait to Different Floor-Robot Friction Coefficients).
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Santos, J.P., Ferreira, J.P., Crisóstomo, M., Paulo Coimbra, A. (2019). Instrumented Shoes for 3D GRF Analysis and Characterization of Human Gait. In: Rojas, I., Valenzuela, O., Rojas, F., Ortuño, F. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11466. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17935-9_6
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