I-Corps, Humo Base: Ankle Complex Wearable for Kinematic and Kinetic Movement Data Capture and Assessment

I-Corps、Humo Base：用于运动学和动力学运动数据采集和评估的踝关节复合可穿戴设备

• 批准号: 1844451
• 负责人: Reuben Burch
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Humo; Base; Ankle; Complex

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project will be to improve the health and performance of sports, industrial, or military athletes on a court, in a warehouse, or serving our country, through a wearable liquid metal sensor solution. One of the largest over-use injuries that is prevalent in non-contact injuries, occurs at the foot and ankle, resulting in millions of dollars lost each year through missed time off and rehabilitation costs. Therefore, this wearable solution is designed to assess current movement patterns and function as a pre-rehabilitation device, which provides an assessment to warn wearers and practitioners of potential over-use movement patterns. In addition, the wearable can be used as a training device to ensure proper rehabilitation techniques and "back to work or play" range of motion assessments, ensuring effective decision making about when the wearer can and should return to activity. Based on wearable liquid metal technology, this device can be applied to all other joints in the human body, creating a wide range of uses which broaden our potential customer base beyond sports pre-rehabilitation of the ankle. This I-Corps project takes the precision of research equipment out of the laboratory and into the environment where training actually occurs. The wearable device designed for this project is comprised of soft liquid metal sensors and a machine-learning computational platform that is both unrestrictive and non-obtrusive around the wearer's feet and ankles. Through pilot testing utilizing the gold standard of an optical motion capture system, specific sensor positions have been identified that provide linear relationships to the angular changes in single and tri-planar movement(s) of the ankle complex. Paired with wireless communication capabilities, the wearable device will allow managers, coaches, and other practitioners of human performance the opportunity to detect asymmetrical leg movement patterns that cause muscular imbalances and often lead to non-contact injuries. Through user experience (UX) testing protocols, software development will enable customizable user interfaces and reports that answers the "voice of the customer", looking for data from the ground up. Based on the results from laboratory testing, the next step is to field test the wearable device and synchronize data visualizations with appropriate mobile devices in order to gain deeper insight on customer wants and needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是通过可穿戴的液体金属传感器解决方案在法庭，仓库或为我们国家服务的球场，工业或军事运动员的健康和表现。 在脚和脚踝上发生的最大的过度使用伤害之一是在非接触式伤害中受到的伤害之一，导致每年损失数百万美元，直到错过的休假时间和康复费用。因此，这种可穿戴的解决方案旨在评估当前的运动模式和作为磨削装置的功能，该设备提供了评估，以警告佩戴者和从业者潜在的过度使用运动模式。 此外，可穿戴设备可用作训练装置，以确保适当的康复技术和“重新工作或发挥”运动评估范围，从而确保对佩戴者何时可以并且应该恢复活动的有效决策。 基于可穿戴的液体金属技术，该设备可以应用于人体中的所有其他关节，从而创造了广泛的用途，从而将我们的潜在客户群扩展到运动预处理的脚踝。 这个I-Corps项目将研究设备从实验室和培训实际发生的环境中列出。 专为该项目设计的可穿戴设备由软液体金属传感器和机器学习计算平台组成，既无限制又不引起佩戴者的脚和脚踝。通过使用光学运动捕获系统的黄金标准进行试验测试，已经确定了特定的传感器位置，该位置为脚踝复合物的单个和三平面运动的角变化提供线性关系。 可穿戴设备与无线通信功能相结合，将使经理，教练和其他人类绩效从业人员获得发现不对称腿部运动模式的机会，这些模式会导致肌肉失衡，并经常导致非接触式伤害。 通过用户体验（UX）测试协议，软件开发将启用可自定义的用户界面和报告，以回答“客户的声音”，从而从头开始寻找数据。 根据实验室测试的结果，下一步是现场测试可穿戴设备，并将数据可视化与适当的移动设备同步，以便深入了解客户需求和需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估来进行评估的支持，以审查标准。