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 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是通过可穿戴液态金属传感器解决方案改善体育、工业或军事运动员在球场上、仓库中或为国家服务的健康和表现。 非接触性损伤中常见的最大过度使用损伤之一发生在足部和脚踝处，每年因错过休息时间和康复费用而损失数百万美元。因此，该可穿戴解决方案旨在评估当前的运动模式并充当预康复设备，提供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，可穿戴设备还可用作训练设备，以确保正确的康复技术和“返回工作或玩耍”的运动范围评估，从而确保佩戴者就何时可以并且应该返回活动做出有效的决策。 该设备基于可穿戴液态金属技术，可应用于人体的所有其他关节，创造了广泛的用途，拓宽了我们的潜在客户群，超越了脚踝的运动预康复。 这个 I-Corps 项目将研究设备的精度从实验室带到了实际进行训练的环境中。 为本项目设计的可穿戴设备由软液态金属传感器和机器学习计算平台组成，该平台在穿戴者的脚和脚踝周围不受限制且不引人注目。通过利用光学运动捕捉系统黄金标准的试点测试，已经确定了特定的传感器位置，这些位置提供了与踝关节复合体的单平面和三平面运动的角度变化的线性关系。 与无线通信功能相结合，可穿戴设备将使管理者、教练和其他人类表现从业者有机会检测不对称的腿部运动模式，这些模式会导致肌肉失衡并常常导致非接触式伤害。 通过用户体验（UX）测试协议，软件开发将实现可定制的用户界面和报告，以回答“客户的声音”，从头开始寻找数据。 根据实验室测试的结果，下一步是对可穿戴设备进行现场测试，并将数据可视化与适当的移动设备同步，以便更深入地了解客户的需求。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。