Validate assistive devices, flexible hybrid electronics, robotic wearables and textile inventions
The NERVE-Movement Assessment and Performance Lab in the Fabric Discovery Center.
The NERVE-Movement Assessment and Performance Lab in the Fabric Discovery Center includes state-of-the-art instruments that measure 3D ground reaction forces, 3D body kinematics, muscle activities, brain activities, metabolic cost and joint torque and power. The instruments include:
- Motek Instrumented Split-Belt Treadmill
- Measuring 3D ground reaction forces
- Dual belt with individual control
- Multiple degrees of freedom - Pitch and Sway
- Quick acceleration and deceleration with safety control
- Self-pace mode with low friction that mimics natural environment
- Real-time control and data recording
- Camera-based Motion Capture system
- Gold standard for measuring 3D kinematics of the whole body and individual joints
- Electromyography Systems to Detect and Record Muscle Activities
- 16 Wireless and stand alone Delsys Trigno EMG sensors
- 16 Low profile wireless BIOPAC Bionomadix EMG sensors
- 16-channel EMG & Goniometer system (Biometrics Ltd)
- Wearable Motion Capture Systems (APDM and Xsens MVN)
- Measuring 3D human kinematics on the field
- Lightweight IMU-based motion capture sensors
- Cosmed K5 Wearable Metabolic Technology to Estimate Metabolic Expenditure
- For both laboratory and field testing
- Rehabtek IntelliStretcher, a single-axis robotic device
- Able to be reconfigured to measure torque and motion of wrist, elbow or forearm of a human subject
- Neuroelectrics Enobio 32 Electroencephalogy
- 32-channel EEG system including dry and wet electrodes to record brain activities
- Motorized stationary bicycle and standard treadmill for conducting exercise interventions