To identify the dynamic model of the treadmill, this study uses the piezoelectricity material (Po1yviny-lidene fluoride, PVDF) to measure the force under treadmill. With this dynamic model, the ground reaction force (GRF) can be derived from the PVDF sensors. The reliability and precision of the GRF results are verified by replacing the PVDF with the traditional load cell (Force measurement devices).
To verify the accuracy of treadmill model, this study acquires three different types of GRF signals (marking time, walking and running) from ten subjects. For the marking time case, the correlation coefficients between the actual and predicated GRF signals are approximately 0.98. This study also demonstrates that the proposed model can provide sufficient bandwidth for the walking and running GRF signals.
Finally, via comparing the average GRF profile, inter-personal differences of the GRF signal can be observed. Among the three tested locomotion patterns, the marking time GRF has the highest similarity whereas the running GRF signals has the largest variability.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0711111-165019 |
| Date | 11 July 2011 |
| Creators | Tsai, Tsung-ju |
| Contributors | Liang-Wen Hang, Jiann-Der Lee, Chen-Wen Yen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0711111-165019 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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