Abstract
Though the distance and temporal factors of gait are the most important and fundamental variable parameters to describe and evaluate gait format, they have not been fully utilized for gait analytical study for lack of such equipment system adequate for taking and recording those factors automatically.
Hitherto, the above factors of gait have been obtained frequently from measured data with foot prints, pedoscope, foor floor contact patterns measuring system, instrumented shoes, and so on. Such semi-manual procedures, however, has required much time and labor to take data enough to perform statistical processing.
So, the authors have newly developed a measuring equipment system for gait analysis, which is constructed with a wired walkway platform, an electric circuit controller, and a microprocessing computer. Then, a train of processing works, from the data input to the evaluating results output, via the describing of gait format, has been successfully automated.
