Systems and Methods for Assisted Ambulation

摘要

Cognitive orthotics. More specifically, assistive ambulation systems and methods, including systems that can detect a person who uses an assistive ambulation device (such as a walker) and produce a signal in response to the detection, which signal is designed to encourage or motivate the person to use the device. They system may also stop the signal when the person engages the device and/or produce an additional signal or a different signal when the person engages the device.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
an initiator sensor configured to detect a person; a controller couplable to the initiator sensor; a signaling device couplable to the controller, the controller configured to cause the signaling device to produce a signal based on input received by the controller from the initiator sensor after the initiator sensor detects a person; an engagement sensor couplable to the controller and configured such that, if coupled to an assistive ambulation device, the engagement sensor can detect if a person has engaged the assistive ambulation device; and a power supply couplable to at least one of the controller, the initiator sensor, the signaling device, and the engagement sensor.