Reducing the Cost of Experimental Equipment for Human Walk Studies

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About This Project

This research focuses on determining the functioning of human movement biomechanics. Finding and studying the body movements and external interacting forces during walking and other movements helping on determining more accurate medical decisions and designing mobility devices to help in therapy and personal situations necessary for people with mobility disorders and walking disabilities.

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What is the context of this research?

The importance of Human Walking in our society it is enormous. Nowadays keeping the ability to walk for every single human it is not possible. From people with walking disorders, spinal cord injuries to elderly people. Some of this problems are being solved through the use of exoskeleton devices for rehabilitation and daily use purposes.

There is a lack of scientific knowledge about the biomechanics of the human movement and walking. This gap is keeping technology and applicable knowledge away from people with mobility disorders and walking disabilities that could be helped through reliable and comprehensive studies in order to determine more accurate medical decisions as well as designing mobility devices to help in therapy and personal situations.

What is the significance of this project?

By obtaining this experimental data we can better understand the human locomotion movement. Providing important data for the determinacy of the body mechanics contribution and how we react to disturbances to maintain balance.

These findings could not only provide the unknown scientific functioning of the human movement but also reduce the cost and improve performance of medical and personal devices that assist on motion tasks to people with disabilities during human walk.

What are the goals of the project?

Solve the undetermined situation of the contribution of our different body mechanisms (muscles, tendons, bones) to perform and maintain human movements.

Obtaining the full body movements and external interacting forces during walking and other movements providing the information needed to know the required forces on each part of the body to perform locomotion.

Making it possible to obtain the full body experimental data in outdoor and more complex situations present in our daily life that are necessary to determine our body biomechanics.

By building a lab prototype equipment to obtain experimental data to study human motion in depth.

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The budget is covering the whole design, manufacture and testing of the equipment as well as the experimental validations and research expenses needed.

Project Timeline

The project is expected to be finished by december 2017

Oct 20, 2017

Manufacturing of the structure

Oct 27, 2017

Integration of the sensors

Nov 03, 2017

Hardware assembly and wiring

Nov 17, 2017

Calibration and mechanical adjustments

Nov 30, 2017

Tests and validation

Meet the Team

Inigo Sanz Pena
Inigo Sanz Pena
PhD candidate - ME Industrial Engineering / BE Mechanical Engineering

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New York University - Universidad de La Rioja
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