VelGmat: Low Cost Gait Mat For Stance Phase Calculation

Material science enables us to develop a wide array of materials capable enough to address worldly problems. Velostat is a carbon-impregnated polythene material used to address many problems including gait-related problems. This paper presents a novel approach to analyze a gait-cycle parameter calle...

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Main Authors: Wani, Mohammad Waqas, Gururaj, Y Pawankumar, P, Vivek, Karre, Sai Anirudh, Reddy, Raghu, Azeemuddin, Syed
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Costs
Gait cycle
Hardware
Materials science and technology
Piezoresistive
Pressure sensing
Scan time
Sensitivity
Sensor density
Sensors
Velostat
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Summary:Material science enables us to develop a wide array of materials capable enough to address worldly problems. Velostat is a carbon-impregnated polythene material used to address many problems including gait-related problems. This paper presents a novel approach to analyze a gait-cycle parameter called 'Stance-phase.' We ideated, designed, and implemented a low-cost customizable Velostat based sensing mat to calculate the stance phase. We validated our VelGmat using sensor density, sensitivity, process time, and hardware performance metrics. Our validation results helped us improve the effectiveness of gait analysis. We conducted a comparative study between our VelGmat and commercially available mat to understand the contrast in stance phase values. We observed 95% accuracy in stance phase values compared with commercially available mat.
ISSN:2168-9229
DOI:10.1109/SENSORS52175.2022.9967332