F-VESPA: A Kinematic-based Algorithm for Real-time Heel-strike Detection During Walking

Chrysostomos Karakasis,Panagiotis Artemiadis,Chrysostomos Karakasis,Panagiotis Artemiadis

With over 10 million people currently suffering from significant long-term gait disability in the United States only, robot-assisted rehabilitation and wearable devices are increasingly gaining attention as a mean to regain functional mobility. Since these devices work collaborative and synchronously with the human gait, it is necessary to be able to detect gait events, such as heel-strikes, in re...