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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2015.14.0122

Estimation of Tibia Angle through Time-Varying Complementary Filtering and Gait Phase Detection  

Song, Seok-ki (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
Woo, Hanseung (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
Kong, Kyoungchul (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.21, no.10, 2015 , pp. 944-950 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent studies on ankle-foot prostheses used for transtibial amputees have focused on the adaptation of the ankle angle of the prosthesis according to ground conditions. For adaptation to various ground conditions (e.g., incline, decline, and step conditions), ankle-foot prostheses should first recognize the ground conditions as well as the current human motion pattern. For this purpose, the ground reaction forces and orientation angle of the tibia provide fundamental information. The measurement of the orientation angle, however, creates a challenge in practice. Although various sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, can be utilized to measure the orientation angles of the prosthesis, none of these sensors can be solely used due to their intrinsic drawbacks. In this paper, a time-varying complementary filtering (TVCF) method is proposed to incorporate the measurements from an accelerometer and a gyroscope to obtain a precise orientation angle. The cut-off frequency of TVCF is adaptively determined according to the human gait phase detected by a fuzzy logic algorithm. The performance of the proposed method is verified through experiments.
Keywords
angle estimation; time-varying complementary filter; ankle-foot prostheses;
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