Project Details
Abstract
“Rehabilitation at home” is one of the most important issues for rehabilitation-related
medical treatment. Current approaches request patients to perform rehabilitation in the
hospital under the guiding of the professional physicians. When the patients return home, they
usually cannot copy the environment as same as the hospital or buy the same equipment to
rehabilitate by themselves. However, some rehabilitation motions should be performed
frequently by patients at home. Therefore, designing a home-based rehabilitation monitoring
system such that a patient can exercise more safely or finish the rehabilitation schedule
correctly would be a very interesting and significant research topic.
This is a two-year project which aims to apply the gait detection and video tracking
techniques to develop such a system. In this system, we will design a wearable smart belt,
which is composed of dual accelerometers and a micro-controller, to measure the temporal
and spatial gait parameters, like acceleration or velocity, from a subject’s left and right hip
joints. Also, we will develop a video tracking technique which uses a camera to recognize the
movements and catch the features when a subject performs the rehabilitation motions.
Particularly, we will build up a rehabilitation information platform to support more realizable
applications, such as user data uploading, long-term data storage and analysis, and 3D gait
reconstruction.
A user can use this system to perform self-rehabilitation at home, under the monitoring
of the camera and the smart belt. Physicians can use this system to evaluate the performance
of a patient’s rehabilitation process or modify the rehabilitation plan on-line. By realizing this
project, we expect that all members joining this project can learn more knowledge and
experiences on designing more innovative home-care health management systems.
Project IDs
Project ID:PB10207-1917
External Project ID:NSC102-2221-E182-027
External Project ID:NSC102-2221-E182-027
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 01/08/13 → 31/07/14 |
Keywords
- Rehabilitation at home
- gait detection
- video tracking
- 3D accelerometer
- pattern recognition
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