BADGER Lab members Heidi Fehr, Dr. Jenny Bartloff, and Yisen Wang published an article in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal under the guidance of Prof. Adamczyk. This article discusses a novel method to determine whole-foot minimum foot clearance using a single foot mounted IMU and personalized 3D scan of the person’s foot.
Figure from doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-63124-6
Understanding mFC is critical to reduce trip-and-fall risks—especially in amputees, older adults, and those with neurologic gait impairments. Our proposed method combines the reconstructed global position and orientation of a single foot-mounted IMU with a 3D scan of the person’s foot/shoe to understand how the whole foot moves in space during swing phase. This allows us to not only better understand mFC but also know where on the foot mFC occurred—which is usually not the toe, and can deviate greatly in populations with gait impairments.
Figure from doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-63124-6
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View an animation of the 3D reconstruction below!