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