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Shanhai Jin, Xiaogang Xiong, Dejin Zhao, Changfu Jin and Motoji Yamamoto
As a walking assistive device for elderly persons, one of the major aims should be to improve and rehabilitate gait characteristics after long-term repeated use of the device. However, most of the existing research on walking assistive devices only empha...
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Nazia Ejaz, Saad Jawaid Khan, Fahad Azim, Mehwish Faiz, Emil Teu?an, Alin Ple?a, Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and Sergiu-Dan Stan
Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteoporosis...
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Ji-Yong Jung and Jung-Ja Kim
A rollator, one of the most widely used among walking assistance devices, can assist the elderly with stable walking in their daily lives. In this study, we investigated how the structural characteristics of two types of rollators affect the upper and lo...
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Xuanzhen Cen, Zhenghui Lu, Julien S. Baker, Bíró István and Yaodong Gu
Although values of arch stiffness index (ASI) have been used to evaluate arch structure and injury susceptibility, investigations are limited regarding the influence of ASI on biomechanical characteristics during gait termination, which involves a challe...
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Claudia Barattini, Luca Dimauro, Angelo Domenico Vella and Alessandro Vigliani
In recent years, significant improvements in the design of leg blade prosthetics have been carried out. After several advances in material and topological optimisations, sport-purpose feet prosthetics have reached high-level performances, allowing athlet...
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Hye Kyeong Lee, Sung Min Kim and Hong Seok Lim
Loss of lumbar lordosis in flatback patients leads to changes in the walking mechanism like knee flexion. Such variations in flatback patients are predicted to alter the characteristics of total knee replacement (TKR) contact, so their TKR will show diff...
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Daewook Lee, Jiman Soon, Gyuri Choi, Kijoon Kim and Sangwoo Bahn
Walking patterns can be used as a key parameter in identifying individuals, as it varies visually depending on one?s body size as well as their habits, gender, and age group. In this study, we measure the gait characteristics of a large number of subject...
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Ilka Schneider, Stephan Zierz, Stephan Schulze, Karl-Stefan Delank, Kevin G. Laudner, Richard Brill and René Schwesig
Pompe disease is a neurological disease with significant impacts on gait and balance. Therefore, it is important to measure these characteristics in a functional, valid and reliable manner. This investigation used a cross-sectional study design utilizing...
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Agnieszka Szpala, Slawomir Winiarski, Malgorzata Kolodziej, Bogdan Pietraszewski, Ryszard Jasinski, Tadeusz Niebudek, Andrzej Lejczak, Karolina Lorek, Jacek Balchanowski, Slawomir Wudarczyk and Marek Wozniewski
This investigation aimed to scrutinise the kinematic and spatio-temporal characteristics of free and Nordic walking (NW) in older adults, utilising both traditional and biosensor-integrated mechatronic poles. The hypothesis was that including biosensors ...
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Xin?an Gao, Xiaorong Guan, Yanlong Yang and Jingmin Zhang
The tracked-wheeled mobile robot has gained significant attention in military, agricultural, construction, and other fields due to its exceptional mobility and off-road capabilities. Therefore, it is an ideal choice for reconnaissance and exploration tas...
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João Monge, Gonçalo Ribeiro, António Raimundo, Octavian Postolache and Joel Santos
Health monitoring is crucial in hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Challenges can affect the reliability and accuracy of health data. Human error, patient compliance concerns, time, money, technology, and environmental factors might cause these issues...
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Siqi Hao, Ruiwei Liu, Xuntao Lin, Chenxiao Li, Hongwei Guo, Zhiwen Ye and Chunlong Wang
Due to their high kinematic characteristics, six-bar tensegrities have great potential application value in the field of robotics, especially in the field of deep space exploration robots. In this paper, an ultralight six-bar tensegrity robot is designed...
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J. Diego Mendoza-Gámez,David Asael Gutierrez-Hernandez,Irving Rico-Restrepo,Raúl Santiago-Montero,Víctor M. Zamudio,Josué Del Valle-Hernández,Miguel Gómez-Díaz,Jackeline Granados-Ruiz
The analysis of the human gait is of great importance for the diagnosis and the choice of the type of treatment that the patient must obtain. In this work, we report a proposal of the capture of the movement and an interpretation of the signal obtained b...
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Fermín Martínez-Solís, Sergio Vergara-Limon, Aurora Vargas-Treviño, José Maria Rodrigues-Lelis, Abraham Claudio-Sánchez, Marciano Vargas-Treviño
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Current research reports on the development of a portable electronic system to assess the kinematics of the lower limb joints at the sagittal plane. The electronic device characteristics and the different communication protocols to transfer data are also...
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Daniel Soto-Guerrero, José Gabriel Ramírez-Torres and Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello
Insects are good examples of ground locomotion because they can adapt their gait pattern to propel them in any direction, over uneven terrain, in a stable manner. Nevertheless, replicating such locomotion skills to a legged robot is not a straightforward...
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Zhifeng Qi and Xiuting Sun
In complex and extreme environments, such as pipelines and polluted waters, gait programming has great significance for multibody segment locomotion robots. The earthworm-like locomotion robot is a representative multibody bionic robot, which has the cha...
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Joo Young Kim and Young Ook Kim
Numerous pedestrians interact with the subway station space by finding entrances into this closed area to use the subway system; further, they may use transfer transportation facilities or the complex functions nearby, such as commercial. Many studies ex...
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Zhyar Q. Mawlood, Azhin T. Sabir
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A biometric system offers automatic identification of an individual based on characteristic possessed by the individual. Biometric identification systems are often categorized as physiological or behavioural characteristics. Gait as one of the behavioura...
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Tao Zhen, Lei Yan and Peng Yuan
Gait phase detection is a new biometric method which is of great significance in gait correction, disease diagnosis, and exoskeleton assisted robots. Especially for the development of bone assisted robots, gait phase recognition is an indispensable key t...
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Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Khalid Iqbal and Ahmad Talal Riaz
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a paradigm shift from slow and manual approaches to fast and automated systems. It has been deployed for various use-cases and applications in recent times. There are many aspects of IoT that can be used for the assistance...
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