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Fall risk assessment can help identify fall-prone individuals and design fall prevention and intervention programs, therefore it is recognized as an effective fall prevention measure. The foot center of pressure (COP) is an important fall risk assessment parameter. This paper presents a novel approach for measuring the COP trajectory by a wearable device based on low cost force sensitive resistors (FSRs). A pilot study was carried out for model development and validation purpose. The results showed that COP trajectory can be estimated accurately. This study can benefit the future clinical application to allow the COP be analyzed in home settings and used as the fall risk assessment parameter for elderly who are prone to fall accidents.
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This work was supported in part by Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant number 2015A030313553 and 2016A030310068; Science, Technology and Innovation Committee of Shenzhen City under Grant number JCYJ20160422145322758 and JCYJ20150525092940994.
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Hu, X., Zhao, J., Li, Y., He, Y., Qu, X. (2018). A Low Cost Instrumented Insole to Measure the Center of Pressure During Standing. In: Qiao, F., Patnaik, S., Wang, J. (eds) Recent Developments in Mechatronics and Intelligent Robotics. ICMIR 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 691. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70990-1_44
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