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Gait Analysis Laboratory

TEF-Health Service
Physical
Unique Identifier: aa39723a-2141-4d7b-ba8c-e1f1fdf17d12

Service Description

Overview:

This service provides comprehensive, full-body motion analysis of human gait using an instrumented treadmill system. The Motek GRAIL (Gait Real-time Analysis Interactive Lab) supports complex operations, including reverse mode, high acceleration, high-speed protocols, and inertia compensation. This setup allows for the precise measurement of kinematics and kinetics during continuous walking or running, providing a highly controlled environment to study biomechanics, perturb gait, and evaluate rehabilitative interventions or wearable monitoring devices.

How can the service help you?

This service supports the development and validation of medical devices, rehabilitation protocols, and wearable gait trackers. Evaluating lower-limb biomechanics or fall-prevention algorithms requires sustained, repeatable walking data and the ability to induce controlled perturbations. By using this facility, clients can collect continuous, high-fidelity kinematic and kinetic ground-truth data in a controlled setting. The synchronized VR environment also allows for the assessment of cognitive-motor interactions during gait. The collected data can be used to validate device accuracy in accordance with the Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745.

How will the service be delivered?

The service is delivered physically at the biomedical engineering laboratory in Erlangen, Germany. A typical session involves configuring the GRAIL system and the virtual reality environment to match the specific test protocol. Laboratory staff manage hardware calibration, participant safety harnessing, sensor placement, and treadmill operation during data collection. Upon completion, clients receive processed kinematic and biomechanical datasets.

Provider description:

Operating from the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, we are a service provider node within the TEF-Health consortium. The research group specializes in machine learning, biomedical signal processing, and multimodal sensor synchronization. Our team provides testing infrastructure and scientific support for evaluating medical devices, wearables, and contactless sensing systems.

Technical details:

The laboratory is equipped to capture continuous gait cycles and physiological responses.

  • Treadmill & VR System: The Motek GRAIL System is an instrumented dual-belt treadmill integrated with a 180-degree virtual reality projection screen. It supports high acceleration, high speed, reverse modes, and inertia compensation for perturbation studies.

  • Wearable Sensors: 10x Vicon BlueTrident Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are available for synchronized joint angle and acceleration tracking. 2x Apple iPhone SE 2022 devices are provided for integrating and testing mobile health applications during the trials.

  • Software: Biomechanical data processing and musculoskeletal modeling are supported by specialized software, including Hyfydy and Autolev.

  • Standards: The laboratory operates in compliance with Medical Device Regulations EU/2017/745.

Service customization:

The service can be adapted to specific research or validation requirements. Clients can define the treadmill speed profiles, incline variations, and specific virtual reality scenarios used during the test. The sensor setup can also be customized, ranging from using only the built-in treadmill force plates to incorporating the full suite of Vicon BlueTrident IMUs for detailed multi-segment modeling.

Offerings: Testing Pre-Clinical (Neurology, Cardiology, wearables, motion, psychophysical, GLP, animal safety, toxicity, etc.)
TEF-Health Use Case Domain: all
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Provider Organisation Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU)
Provider Country Germany
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Billing: per day
Full Price 2640 EUR
Pricing Detail

Prices are subject to change and will be adjusted according to specific needs.

Operational Details

Service Inputs Study Objective, Requirements, Test Subject(s), Prototype Device
Service Outputs Dataset, Report
Service Standards
  • - Medical Device Regulations EU/2017/745 (for Motek GRAIL System)
  • - Silver standard in/out of lab IMU based gait analysis

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