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In this paper, we present a wearable plantar pressure measurement system for locomotion mode recognition. The proposed system is implemented with four force sensors in each shoe to measure different given position pressure. By phase-dependent pattern recognition, we get reliable classification results of the six investigated modes for a below-knee amputee subject. The satisfactory recognition performances show the prospect of the integration of the proposed system with powered prostheses used for lower-limb amputees.
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Wang, X., Wang, Q., Zheng, E., Wei, K., Wang, L. (2013). A Wearable Plantar Pressure Measurement System: Design Specifications and First Experiments with an Amputee. In: Lee, S., Cho, H., Yoon, KJ., Lee, J. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33932-5_26
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