Publications by authors named "Carlos F Rengifo"

Article Synopsis
  • - The paper introduces a budget-friendly electronic system designed to estimate ground reaction forces (GRF) during walking by utilizing a master node and two slave nodes connected to insole sensors placed in participants' shoes.
  • - The system employs 14 piezo-resistive sensors in each insole to collect data, which is then transmitted to a PC via USB after the walking session is completed, allowing for easy data retrieval through Wi-Fi.
  • - Validation against force platforms shows promising accuracy in dynamic situations, and future improvements will leverage machine learning models to enhance estimation precision.
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This study proposes a multiclass model to classify the severity of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) using bioimpedance measurements. The experimental setup considered three types of measurements using eight electrodes: global impedance with adjacent pattern, global impedance with opposite pattern, and direct impedance measurement, which were taken using an electronic device proposed by authors and based on the Analog Devices AD5933 impedance converter. The study comprised 37 participants, 25 with healthy knees and 13 with three different degrees of KOA.

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This study proposes a low-cost, portable, eight-channel electrical impedance tomograph based on the AD5933 impedance converter. The patterns for current injection and voltage measurement are managed by an Arduino Mega 2560 board and four 74HC4067 Texas Instruments multiplexers. Regarding the experimental results, the errors in the impedance estimates of an electrical circuit that represents a Cole model were less than 1.

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This article presents a five-part dataset for human gait analysis in a healthy older adult population (37 women and seven men; age 69.98 8.57 years, body mass index 27.

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This paper proposes a low-cost portable electronic system for estimating step width during the human gait cycle. This device, intended to support the Walking Stance item of the fall risk assessment test Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA), contains three electronic boards, comprising two sensing nodes and a concentrator. Each sensing node contains a force sensitive resistor (FSR) and time-of-flight camera (TOF).

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