Inertial measurement unit-based estimation of foot trajectory for clinical gait analysis

K Hori, Y Mao, Y Ono, H Ora, Y Hirobe… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gait analysis is used widely in clinical practice to evaluate abnormal gait caused by disease.
Conventionally, medical professionals use motion capture systems or make visual …

Validation of an IMU gait analysis algorithm for gait monitoring in daily life situations

L Zhou, C Tunca, E Fischer, CM Brahms… - 2020 42nd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gait is an essential function for humans, and gait patterns in daily life provide meaningful
information about a person's cognitive and physical health conditions. Inertial measurement …

Optimal foot location for placing wearable IMU sensors and automatic feature extraction for gait analysis

AR Anwary, H Yu, M Vassallo - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our aim is to maximize the interpretable information for gait analysis. To achieve this, it is
important to find the optimal sensor placement and the parameters that influence the …

Estimation of stride-by-stride spatial gait parameters using inertial measurement unit attached to the shank with inverted pendulum model

Y Mao, T Ogata, H Ora, N Tanaka, Y Miyake - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based gait analysis systems have become popular in
clinical environments because of their low cost and quantitative measurement capability …

Accuracy verification of spatio-temporal and kinematic parameters for gait using inertial measurement unit system

SS Yeo, GY Park - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inertial measurement unit systems are wearable sensors that can measure the movement of
a human in real-time with relatively little space and high portability. The purpose of this study …

Three-dimensional continuous gait trajectory estimation using single shank-worn inertial measurement units and clinical walk test application

H Uchitomi, Y Hirobe, Y Miyake - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
State-of-the-art estimation methods using inertial measurement units (IMUs) for global
continuous gait path and local stepwise gait trajectory during walking have been developed …

An ambulatory gait monitoring system with activity classification and gait parameter calculation based on a single foot inertial sensor

M Song, J Kim - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal: For healthcare and clinical use, ambulatory gait monitoring systems using inertial
sensors have been developed to estimate the user gait parameters, such as walking speed …

Calibration-free gait assessment by foot-worn inertial sensors

D Laidig, AJ Jocham, B Guggenberger… - Frontiers in Digital …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Walking is a central activity of daily life, and there is an increasing demand for objective
measurement-based gait assessment. In contrast to stationary systems, wearable inertial …

Validity and repeatability of inertial measurement units for measuring gait parameters

EP Washabaugh, T Kalyanaraman, PG Adamczyk… - Gait & posture, 2017 - Elsevier
Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are small wearable sensors that have tremendous
potential to be applied to clinical gait analysis. They allow objective evaluation of gait and …

Validation of temporal gait metrics from three IMU locations to the gold standard force plate

MR Patterson, W Johnston, N O'Mahony… - 2016 38th Annual …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this work is to compare temporal gait parameters from three different IMU
locations to the gold standard force platform. 33 subjects (12 F, 21 M) performed twenty gait …