Measurement of impacts on legs in walking

This paper presents an approach on measurement of impacts absorption level on legs in a walking situation, by using 3-axis accelerometer sensor attached on three essential part of body. To measure this levels of impact on ankle and waist, developed a microcontroller based portable wireless sensing and data acquisition system. Comparing between, both impacts received at ankle to the impact receive on waist can estimate absorption level of impact produced in a walking situation.

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