Christian Tucci
Exploring human lower limb kinematics in walking: overcoming challenges with minimal inertial sensor configuration using a robotic modeling approach.
Rel. Andrea Cereatti, Marco Caruso. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2025
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Abstract
Estimating lower limb joint kinematics is crucial for assessing movement disorders,optimizing rehabilitation, and monitoring sports performance. Traditional clinical setups require marker-based systems with at least three markers per segment. Wearable IMUs offer an alternative by placing sensors on proximal and distal segments but remain bulky, time-consuming, and costly. This highlights the potential of a minimal sensor configuration. Selecting instrumented segments requires careful consideration. Prioritizing the pelvis, representing center-of-mass dynamics, and the feet, as movement end-effectors, aligns with established methods for estimating spatio-temporal parameters in free-living conditions. This thesis extends previous work on a biomechanical model that estimates joint angles using anthropometric measurements and pelvis/feet orientations and positions.
That work addressed measurement errors by applying constraints and an optimization framework to fit segment data while limiting hip, knee, and ankle motion
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