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High-Resolution Plantar Pressure Insole System for Enhanced Lower Body Biomechanical Analysis

Chi, JunJian; Zhang, Qingyu; Zhang, Zibo; Demosthenous, Andreas; Wu, Yu; (2025) High-Resolution Plantar Pressure Insole System for Enhanced Lower Body Biomechanical Analysis. In: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). IEEE: London, United Kingdom. Green open access

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Abstract

Gait analysis is a crucial method for evaluating and monitoring an individual's health. A critical aspect of this analysis is understanding how forces are distributed across the foot while walking. Existing plantar pressure insole systems often lack the resolution needed for detailed foot analysis. To address this, a real-time insole system is presented with 253 high-density resistive pressure sensors (4 sensors per cm<sup>2</sup>) for each foot with a wireless transfer rate of 60 Hz. In addition, our work combines the insole hardware with a custom convolutional neural network (CNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) model to predict six lower body joint landmark positions. The prediction achieves a coefficient of determination (R<sup>2</sup>) of 0.83 and a mean squared error (MSE) ranging from 7.0e-4 to 9.6e-4. With an inference time of 0.6 ms, this system provided accurate, high-resolution plantar foot pressures and insights into 3D joint movements in the lower body. It is a promising tool for applications in rehabilitation and sports performance optimisation.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: High-Resolution Plantar Pressure Insole System for Enhanced Lower Body Biomechanical Analysis
Event: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Dates: 25 May 2025 - 28 May 2025
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/iscas56072.2025.11044303
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/iscas56072.2025.11044303
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Pressure sensors, Wireless sensor networks,Accuracy, Three-dimensional displays, Predictive models, Data models, Sensor systems, Real-time systems, Foot, Sports
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212767
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