Force Shadows: An Online Method to Estimate and Distribute Vertical Ground Reaction Forces from Kinematic Data
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Junior Research Group wearHEALTH, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 48, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Augmented Vision Department, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Trippstadter Str. 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Department of Technomathematics, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 48, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Sensors 2020, 20(19), 5709; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20195709
Received: 28 July 2020
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Revised: 23 September 2020
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Accepted: 4 October 2020
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Published: 8 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based Systems for Kinematics and Kinetics)
Kinetic models of human motion rely on boundary conditions which are defined by the interaction of the body with its environment. In the simplest case, this interaction is limited to the foot contact with the ground and is given by the so called ground reaction force (GRF). A major challenge in the reconstruction of GRF from kinematic data is the double support phase, referring to the state with multiple ground contacts. In this case, the GRF prediction is not well defined. In this work we present an approach to reconstruct and distribute vertical GRF (vGRF) to each foot separately, using only kinematic data. We propose the biomechanically inspired force shadow method (FSM) to obtain a unique solution for any contact phase, including double support, of an arbitrary motion. We create a kinematic based function, model an anatomical foot shape and mimic the effect of hip muscle activations. We compare our estimations with the measurements of a Zebris pressure plate and obtain correlations of
Keywords:
ground reaction force; vertical ground reaction force; vertical ground reaction force prediction; mobile kinetic analysis; inertial motion capture; pressure; plantar pressure distribution
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Weidmann, A.; Taetz, B.; Andres, M.; Laufer, F.; Bleser, G. Force Shadows: An Online Method to Estimate and Distribute Vertical Ground Reaction Forces from Kinematic Data. Sensors 2020, 20, 5709. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20195709
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Weidmann A, Taetz B, Andres M, Laufer F, Bleser G. Force Shadows: An Online Method to Estimate and Distribute Vertical Ground Reaction Forces from Kinematic Data. Sensors. 2020; 20(19):5709. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20195709
Chicago/Turabian StyleWeidmann, Alexander, Bertram Taetz, Matthias Andres, Felix Laufer, and Gabriele Bleser. 2020. "Force Shadows: An Online Method to Estimate and Distribute Vertical Ground Reaction Forces from Kinematic Data" Sensors 20, no. 19: 5709. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20195709
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