Real-time reconstruction of footprint positions using an "intelligent carpet" imaging sensor

Jose A. Cantoral-Ceballos, Paul Wright, John Vaughan, Patricia Scully, Krikor B. Ozanyan

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Abstract

Fast real-time reconstruction of the position of footprints on an "intelligent carpet" sensor is achieved on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) by parallel computation based on the previously introduced Parallel Center-of-Mass Algorithm (PCoMA). Its performance with synthetic data (numerical phantoms) as well as with data measured with a Photonic Guided-Path Tomography (PGPT) sensor head shows that position error in the order of 10-2 is achievable at tens of kHz frame rate. Additional data processing is possible on the unused FPGA resources to allow efficient streaming of sensor information. This suggests that low-cost, large area PGPT floor sensors can be installed and used in community environments for unobtrusive long-term monitoring of gait stability and changes with age or due the onset of illness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE SENSORS - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479982028
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event14th IEEE SENSORS - Busan, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 1 Nov 20154 Nov 2015

Publication series

Name2015 IEEE SENSORS - Proceedings

Conference

Conference14th IEEE SENSORS
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityBusan
Period1/11/154/11/15

Keywords

  • FPGA
  • gait analysis
  • intelligent carpet
  • real-time reconstruction

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