Title
A 3D-Printed Knee Wearable Goniometer with a Mobile-App Interface for Measuring Range of Motion and Monitoring Activities
Date Issued
01 February 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
MDPI
Abstract
Wearable technology has been developed in recent years to monitor biomechanical variables in less restricted environments and in a more affordable way than optical motion capture systems. This paper proposes the development of a 3D printed knee wearable goniometer that uses a Hall-effect sensor to measure the knee flexion angle, which works with a mobile app that shows the angle in real-time as well as the activity the user is performing (standing, sitting, or walking). Detection of the activity is done through an algorithm that uses the knee angle and angular speeds as inputs. The measurements of the wearable are compared with a commercial goniometer, and, with the Aktos-t system, a commercial motion capture system based on inertial sensors, at three speeds of gait (4.0 km/h, 4.5 km/h, and 5.0 km/h) in nine participants. Specifically, the four differences between maximum and minimum peaks in the gait cycle, starting with heel-strike, were compared by using the mean absolute error, which was between 2.46 and 12.49 on average. In addition, the algorithm was able to predict the three activities during online testing in one participant and detected on average 94.66% of the gait cycles performed by the participants during offline testing.
Volume
22
Issue
3
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioinformática
Robótica, Control automático
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85122965003
PubMed ID
Source
Sensors
ISSN of the container
14248220
Sponsor(s)
Funding: This work was supported by the Direction of Research Management at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (DGI-PUCP) through the Annual Competition of Research Projects of 2016 (CAP-2016), with grant number 278-2016.
Sources of information:
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