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Wearable System for Measuring Vertical Ground Reaction Forces During the Gait Cycle

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XLV Mexican Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CNIB 2022)

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This paper presents the experimental result of a portable and wearable system that measures the vertical component of the Ground Reaction Forces that are generated during the human gait cycle. This system consists of an instrumented insole with four Force-sensing resistors that are strategically placed, the data measured is sent to any mobile device across Bluetooth® communication. These sensors were characterized, obtaining the mathematical model that represent the relationship between the voltage and the force applied on the sensor. To verify the behavior of the system, forty samples were taken from twenty individuals with different physical characteristics, indicating that these forces are directly related to the terrain, weight and walking of each user. With the data obtained is possible to identify in which section of the foot of everyone is applied a greater pressure, offering to the orthopedist an alternative to a system of gait analysis.

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  1. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, Mexico

    David Alvarado-Rivera & Paola Andrea Niño-Suárez

  2. Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, Mexico

    Leonel German Corona-Ramírez

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación-LGII, Mexico, Mexico

    Citlalli Jessica Trujillo-Romero

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Computación, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

    Rafael Gonzalez-Landaeta

  3. Instituto de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

    Christian Chapa-González

  4. Facultad de Ciencias Campus Pedregal, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

    Guadalupe Dorantes-Méndez

  5. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico

    Dora-Luz Flores

  6. Conacyt-Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Mexico

    J. J. Agustin Flores Cuautle

  7. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico, Mexico

    Martha R. Ortiz-Posadas

  8. Departamento de Bioingeniería Traslacional, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

    Ricardo A. Salido Ruiz

  9. Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

    Esmeralda Zuñiga-Aguilar

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Alvarado-Rivera, D., Niño-Suárez, P.A., Corona-Ramírez, L.G. (2023). Wearable System for Measuring Vertical Ground Reaction Forces During the Gait Cycle. In: Trujillo-Romero, C.J., et al. XLV Mexican Conference on Biomedical Engineering. CNIB 2022. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 86. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18256-3_50

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