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Parakeet project aims at developping technology to better understand Parkinson Disease and propose new assistive solutions. The proposed research includes gait analysis based on minimal number of embedded sensors, mainly inertial sensors.

Freezing and festination detection

ONGOING PROJECT

  • Description Freezing of gait (FOG) and festination are common symptoms in Parkinson Disease. They affect gait pattern and are associated to fall risks. We aim at early detection of FOG and festination episodes in order to trigger FES assistance. In …

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Graphical tasks

ONGOING PROJECT

  • Financial Support
    INRIA ADT Sensbio
  • Partners
    Collaboration with Brasilia University (Antonio Padilha Bô) 
  • Description
    Clinical assessment of drug therapy in essential tremor (ET) is critical. Drawing tasks, and especially spiral drawing is part of tremor rating scales. In some studies, this particular drawing …

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Mobile Analysis Platform

Integration of a camera into a mobile platform for pathological gait analysis.

We are investigating solutions to record pedagogic videos for gait analysis by visual observation. We have also propose to integrate a Kinect camera gor gait parameter reconstruction.
Preliminary experiments have been carried with healthy subjects and the results sound promising. For more …

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