Real Time Force Sensing Mat for Human Gait Analysis

This paper presents a real time force sensing instrument that is designed for human gait analysis purposes. This instrument mainly consists of three main elements: the force sensing mat, signal conditioning and switching circuit and data acquisition device. In order to control and to process the incoming signals from the force sensing mat, Force-Logger and Force-Reloader program are developed using Labview 8.0. This paper describes the architecture of the force sensing mat, signal conditioning and switching circuit and the real time streaming of the incoming data from the force sensing mat.

Authors:

• Darwin Gouwanda
• S. M. N. Arosha Senanayake
• M. M. Danushka Ranjana Marasinghe
• Mervin Chandrapal
• Jeya Mithra Kumar
• Tung Mun Hon
• Yulius

Keywords:

• Force platform
• Force sensing resistor
• human gait analysis

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