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Tactile Handle for an Instrumented Cane

Authors:
Andrés Trujillo-León
Ragou Ady
Fernando Vidal-Verdú
Wael Bachta

Keywords: tactile sensors, rehabilitation, gait assistance

Abstract:
Tactile sensors are useful input devices to implement human machine interfaces in areas such as rehabilitation or assistance. They can prevent damage from accidents or bad usage, and also provide rich information to infer human behavior from the pressure distribution at the contact interface. This paper introduces an instrumented cane handle equipped with a tactile sensor. The electronics devoted to data acquisition, pre-processing and communication is described. Furthermore, results from tests with different users are shown to illustrate how the information provided by the tactile sensor is related to the gait and can be exploited for research or as control input in an active cane.

Pages: 107 to 110

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: August 23, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-61208-426-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from August 23, 2015 to August 28, 2015