Imagimat smart carpet: POF layer to detect gait and mobility

P. J. Scully; J. Cantoral-Ceballos; J. Vaughan; P. Wright; T. Zebin; F. Podd; O. Costilla-Reyes; C. Brown Wilson; C. Todd; E. Stanmore; K. B. Ozanyan

Imagimat smart carpet: POF layer to detect gait and mobility

P. J. Scully, J. Cantoral-Ceballos, J. Vaughan, P. Wright, T. Zebin, F. Podd, O. Costilla-Reyes, C. Brown Wilson, C. Todd, E. Stanmore, K. B. Ozanyan

School of Computing Sciences

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Abstract

The iMagiMat Smart Carpet is a tomography-based polymer optical fibre (POF) sensor system that images the real-time deformation exerted by human footsteps, to access characteristics of individual gait and mobility. Measurements of changes in POF transmission, due to small deformations of individual optical fibres embedded within the carpet surface, are mapped using a sensing grid of Toray POF sensor elements of 1mm diameter (multimode, 980μm inner diameter, 10μm cladding) and fed into an inverse tomography imaging problem solver. We report recent progress; including the implementation of fast footprint "centre of mass" calculation, related to "centre of pressure" and ground reaction force, the suitability of machine learning techniques for the extraction of gait parameters; and evaluation of iMagiMat performance against more conventional technology such as GAITrite, force plates and inertial motion sensors.

Original language	English
Pages	240-243
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	24th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers, POF 2015 - Nuremberg, Germany Duration: 22 Sep 2015 → 24 Sep 2015

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Conference	24th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers, POF 2015
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Nuremberg
Period	22/09/15 → 24/09/15

Keywords

Biometrics
Deformation
Gait
Mobility
POF
Pressure
Strain
Tomography

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