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Development And Testing Of A Portable Force Sensing System For Biomechanical Assessment Of Actual Workplace Settings
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Book Synopsis Development and Testing of a Portable Force Sensing System for Biomechanical Assessment of Actual Workplace Settings by : Brent Patrick Carmichael
Download or read book Development and Testing of a Portable Force Sensing System for Biomechanical Assessment of Actual Workplace Settings written by Brent Patrick Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel forceshoe sensors were developed and compared to existing forceplate force transducer technology. The forceshoe measurements agreed adequately with the forceplates. The forceshoes and forceplates were used to investigate spinal loading of participants during different phases of the patient sling insertion task to see if foot placement constraints such as the forceplate system affected the participants' behaviour and spinal loading. Ten female participants were asked to place a sling under a patient actor. Biomechanical assessments considered loading at the L5/S1 level and psychophysical measures were collected on each participant's ratings of perceived exertion. The highest peak and median loads occurred during the "roll-away" and "leg-strap-alignment" phases. High cumulative loads were encountered during these phases as well as the "tuck-sling" phase. Also, it was found that participants moved their feet less when told to stand within the forceplate boundaries. Wearing the forceshoes was not found to affect spinal loading.
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Book Synopsis Technology and Aging by : Alex Mihailidis
Download or read book Technology and Aging written by Alex Mihailidis and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents articles on Aging-in-Place, Assistive Technology, Monitoring and Telehealth, Transportation and Mobility, and Design. The section on assistive technology (AT) represents arguably the most mature and generic aspect of technology and aging; except that AT can hardly be regarded really as a specific discipline any longer. Assistive devices and systems command an expansive gamut of technological and engineering specialties, drawing upon mechanical engineering and industrial design at one end of the field and cybernetic systems engineering and brain-computer user interfaces at the other. The largest section in the book, on monitoring and telehealth, reveals novel applications of advanced pattern recognition techniques, some of which have, up to now, found roles primarily in the military, process engineering, and financial sectors. Transportation and mobility still represents by far the largest and most commercially lucrative market segment of technology for seniors. There is however a clear trend towards synthesis of information and communication technologies (ICT) and mobility technologies, which is embodied in the latest developments of automatic collision avoidance and full or semi-autonomous navigation functions in powered mobility devices. The last section is dedicated to design issues. It is proposed that designing for the special needs market before making a design as inclusive as possible to the mainstream market is a viable alternative to the currently accepted notion of inclusive design, provided that aesthetics are appropriately addressed. To conclude, we see a social shift from institutional to home-based care, in which information communication technology based solutions now afford the possibility of aging-in-place for the many thousands of people having mild to moderate cognitive impairment.
Book Synopsis Development and Application of a Portable System to Reliably Measure Grip Forces Using Thin-film Force Sensors by : Shane Vincent Tornifoglio
Download or read book Development and Application of a Portable System to Reliably Measure Grip Forces Using Thin-film Force Sensors written by Shane Vincent Tornifoglio and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Development of a Portable Motion Capture System for Biomechanical Assessment of Caregivers in the Field by : Tilak Dutta
Download or read book Development of a Portable Motion Capture System for Biomechanical Assessment of Caregivers in the Field written by Tilak Dutta and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caregivers experience back injury at alarming rates. Portable tools are needed for performing biomechanical evaluations of caregiving work in the field to determine which activities cause back injury. This work describes the design and validation of portable motion capture devices developed for this purpose. Two novel portable motion capture systems were developed. The performance of the novel systems was compared to an existing motion capture system for their ability to estimate resultant forces at the L5/S1 joint by finding the relative three dimensional positions of the L5/S1 joint and feet. The first system (FootCam) was found to estimate resultant forces with insufficient accuracy due to poor coupling of the device with the subject's body. This coupling error was due to inertial effects and bulk tissue movement. The second system (semi-portable) was found to be sufficiently accurate to serve as a portable replacement for existing motion capture systems.
Book Synopsis Development of Force Sensing Computer Mice for Exposure Assessment by : Peter Wallace Johnson
Download or read book Development of Force Sensing Computer Mice for Exposure Assessment written by Peter Wallace Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Design and Evaluation of a Portable Cost-Effective Biomechanics Analysis System Using Multiple Kinect Sensors by : Rowa Abachi
Download or read book Design and Evaluation of a Portable Cost-Effective Biomechanics Analysis System Using Multiple Kinect Sensors written by Rowa Abachi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Portable Biomechanical Assessment Suite (PBAS) by : Michael L. Boyd
Download or read book Portable Biomechanical Assessment Suite (PBAS) written by Michael L. Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portable Biomechanical Assessment Suite (PBAS) is a suite of sensors to measure the kinematics and kinetics of the human body during lifting tasks. The suite is made up of ten inertial measurement units (IMUs) and the Novel Pedar pressure insoles. The IMUs are made up of an Xbee radio, a triple-axis accelerometer, a dual-axis gyroscope, and a single-axis gyroscope. The data are sent via the 802.15.4 wireless network protocol to a collection device connected to a computer and are stored in a binary data file that is then read and processed by a Matlab program. The output of the program is four data matrices: x-acceleration, y-acceleration, z-angular velocity, and the calculated angular position of each IMU. The pressure insoles are synchronized with the IMUs to measure the ground reaction forces. An initial test was run to determine how battery life, the zero voltage level, and dropout rate change with data transmission time. The tests showed that the IMUs could easily run for five hours with no effect on the dropout rate. The accelerometer was found to have very little zero-drift while the gyroscopes do exhibit some zero drift. This will need to be taken into account for long tests. Three pendulum tests were run to test the IMUs, all yielding good results. The first test used three preliminary IMUs made on breadboards to validate the circuit design and general concept. The next two tests used five final IMUs to measure the kinematics of the pendulum. One test had all IMUs measuring in the sagittal plane while the second test used three sagittal plane IMUs and two IMUs reprogrammed to measure the corresponding signals in the coronal plane. Both tests showed that the IMU signals matched what was expected and validated the network of IMUs for future use in biomechanical testing.
Book Synopsis Development and Testing of an Application Specific Force Sensor for Snowpack Assessment by : Samuel Tileston Whittemore
Download or read book Development and Testing of an Application Specific Force Sensor for Snowpack Assessment written by Samuel Tileston Whittemore and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow penetrometers create a specific application for a force sensor with specifications that are over achieved at great cost when using traditional load cells. A moderately priced, compact force sensor suitable for this application does not exist, and numerous force-sensing technologies were investigated, from spring and displacement transducer combinations, to strain gauges mounted on plastics, to pressure transducers. The high dynamic range, linearity, and electrical simplicity of low-cost piezo-resistive pressure sensors lent well to rapidly developing a working design on a small budget. Preliminary prototypes show promising results where the natural frequency requirement is 60% above the target specification at wn = 10497 rad/s +/- 92 rad/s. The sensor is nearly ideally damped with damping ratio, [zeta] = .43 +/- .04. A linear model results in acceptable hysteretic error for mid and upper range force values, but the sensor performs inaccurately below 2.8 N (greater than 20% error). While the sensor's performance isn't perfect for all criteria, snowpack simulation tests suggest that the sensor's shortcomings are acceptable for the targeted application of measuring relative snow hardness.
Book Synopsis Design and Evaluation of a Miniaturized Wireless Force Sensor Based on Wave Backscattering by : Daegue Park
Download or read book Design and Evaluation of a Miniaturized Wireless Force Sensor Based on Wave Backscattering written by Daegue Park and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to sense forces is critical for ensuring that robots can safely interact with their environment. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations, particularly for medical applications, where environmental and sensor density requirements can pose challenges and constraints to sensor design and implementation. Our previous work presented a novel wireless force sensing paradigm and developed a force sensor based on wave backscattering. However, its large size, rigid design, and the need for an external power supply limited its practical use in medical applications. This work presents a significantly improved and miniaturized force sensor design with wireless and battery-free functions based on a new novel working principle. An end-to-end simulation of the proposed sensor, its fabrication, modeling, and experimental validations in a wired setting is presented. Then, flexible, wireless, and battery-free functions are added to the sensor by improving the sensor interfaces. The sensor performance in a wireless setting is evaluated, and the wireless communication quality is tested to validate the sensor's suitability for medical applications. The proposed sensor can sense forces from 0 N to 6 N. In a wired setting, the sensor's average Root Mean Square (RMS) error was 0.15 N and showed a resolution as high as 0.42 mN. In a wireless setting, the RMS error of the sensor was 0.21 N and had a resolution as high as 150 mN for our sensor prototypes with different interfaces. A demonstration of contact force sensing with the proposed sensors mounted on the body of a continuum robot and a phantom test is presented to show its potential to enable applications in fields such as medical robotics.
Download or read book The Engineering Index Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its creation in 1884, Engineering Index has covered virtually every major engineering innovation from around the world. It serves as the historical record of virtually every major engineering innovation of the 20th century. Recent content is a vital resource for current awareness, new production information, technological forecasting and competitive intelligence. The world?s most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, Engineering Index contains over 10.7 million records. Each year, over 500,000 new abstracts are added from over 5,000 scholarly journals, trade magazines, and conference proceedings. Coverage spans over 175 engineering disciplines from over 80 countries. Updated weekly.
Book Synopsis Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement by : Joseph Hamill
Download or read book Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement written by Joseph Hamill and published by LWW. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the quantitative nature of biomechanics, this book integrates current literature, meaningful numerical examples, relevant applications, hands-on exercises, and functional anatomy, physics, calculus, and physiology to help students - regardless of their mathematical background - understand the full continuum of human movement potential.
Book Synopsis Human-System Integration in the System Development Process by : National Research Council
Download or read book Human-System Integration in the System Development Process written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1991 BusinessWeek ran a cover story entitled, "I Can't Work This ?#!!@ Thing," about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. More than 15 years later, the situation is much the same-but at a very different level of scale. The disconnect between people and technology has had society-wide consequences in the large-scale system accidents from major human error, such as those at Three Mile Island and in Chernobyl. To prevent both the individually annoying and nationally significant consequences, human capabilities and needs must be considered early and throughout system design and development. One challenge for such consideration has been providing the background and data needed for the seamless integration of humans into the design process from various perspectives: human factors engineering, manpower, personnel, training, safety and health, and, in the military, habitability and survivability. This collection of development activities has come to be called human-system integration (HSI). Human-System Integration in the System Development Process reviews in detail more than 20 categories of HSI methods to provide invaluable guidance and information for system designers and developers.
Book Synopsis Data Analytics and Applications of the Wearable Sensors in Healthcare by : Shabbir Syed-Abdul
Download or read book Data Analytics and Applications of the Wearable Sensors in Healthcare written by Shabbir Syed-Abdul and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a collection of comprehensive research articles on data analytics and applications of wearable devices in healthcare. This Special Issue presents 28 research studies from 137 authors representing 37 institutions from 19 countries. To facilitate the understanding of the research articles, we have organized the book to show various aspects covered in this field, such as eHealth, technology-integrated research, prediction models, rehabilitation studies, prototype systems, community health studies, ergonomics design systems, technology acceptance model evaluation studies, telemonitoring systems, warning systems, application of sensors in sports studies, clinical systems, feasibility studies, geographical location based systems, tracking systems, observational studies, risk assessment studies, human activity recognition systems, impact measurement systems, and a systematic review. We would like to take this opportunity to invite high quality research articles for our next Special Issue entitled “Digital Health and Smart Sensors for Better Management of Cancer and Chronic Diseases” as a part of Sensors journal.
Book Synopsis Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process by : Aota
Download or read book Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process written by Aota and published by AOTA Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As occupational therapy celebrates its centennial in 2017, attention returns to the profession's founding belief in the value of therapeutic occupations as a way to remediate illness and maintain health. The founders emphasized the importance of establishing a therapeutic relationship with each client and designing an intervention plan based on the knowledge about a client's context and environment, values, goals, and needs. Using today's lexicon, the profession's founders proposed a vision for the profession that was occupation based, client centered, and evidence based--the vision articulated in the third edition of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process. The Framework is a must-have official document from the American Occupational Therapy Association. Intended for occupational therapy practitioners and students, other health care professionals, educators, researchers, payers, and consumers, the Framework summarizes the interrelated constructs that describe occupational therapy practice. In addition to the creation of a new preface to set the tone for the work, this new edition includes the following highlights: a redefinition of the overarching statement describing occupational therapy's domain; a new definition of clients that includes persons, groups, and populations; further delineation of the profession's relationship to organizations; inclusion of activity demands as part of the process; and even more up-to-date analysis and guidance for today's occupational therapy practitioners. Achieving health, well-being, and participation in life through engagement in occupation is the overarching statement that describes the domain and process of occupational therapy in the fullest sense. The Framework can provide the structure and guidance that practitioners can use to meet this important goal.
Book Synopsis Work-related Neck and Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Disorders by : Peter Buckle
Download or read book Work-related Neck and Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Disorders written by Peter Buckle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Electromyography In Ergonomics by : Shrawan Kumar
Download or read book Electromyography In Ergonomics written by Shrawan Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-03-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electromyography (EMG) is the study of muscle behaviour via electronic means, and is thus a technique fundamental to ergonomics, physiology and biomechanics. This text describes the principles of EMG and its application domains, focusing on anatomy, biology, muscle characteristics, physics, mechanics, EMG signal, noise/artifacts/errors, equipment/devices/techniques, interpretation and computerised data acquisition, and analysis. The book provides a theoretical base, a strategic framework and user experiences.
