Stumble Detection System Helps Improve Safety of Prosthetic Legs
From: NASA Tech Briefs Insider - 09/23/2009
By: Todd McLeish

Walking on a treadmill using an instrumented prosthetic leg, participants in
a University of Rhode Island research project were repeatedly made to trip or
slip. The participants either recovered on their own and kept walking, or
were prevented from falling by a harness they wore. The study was designed to
improve the safety of prosthetic legs by developing a reliable and responsive
stumble detection system. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=5018
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915140934.htm

Links:
Nunnery Orthotic & Prosthetic Technologies
http://nunneryoandp.com/

Helen Huang
http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/huang/