iMotus™ is a compact sensory unit that combines multiple sensory systems, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, to measure and track the orientation, velocity, and gravitational forces of an object in motion. iMotus™ measures linear and angular motion using a combination of accelerometers and gyroscopes with multiple applications, including navigation, robotics, virtual or augmented reality, sports, automotive, aerospace, locomotion, and healthcare industry.
iMotus Standard Edition (iMotus-S)
The standard edition of iMotus™ provides a state-of-the-art sensory system that plugs into iMotus™ software to read, analyze, restore, plot, and interpret data in real-time and provide advanced statistical data analysis. iMotus-S is mounted on objects with any shape, form, or material. The iMotus sensor transfers the measured data to a computer wirelessly and does not need a cable to transfer data.
iMotus Wheelchair Edition (iMotus-W)
The wheelchair edition records, analyzes, and plots real-time data from a pair of sensors attached to the right and left wheels, while the user drives a wheelchair, bicycle, or any mobile vehicle with a differential drive mechanism. This makes iMotus™ a powerful, multipurpose tool that provides crucial data analysis.
Applications
Navigation
To provide accurate positioning, orientation, and velocity data, especially in areas where GPS signals may be obstructed, such as indoors, in tunnels, or in urban canyons.
Robotics
To provide feedback on the robot's movement, orientation, and acceleration and control the robot's motion and ensure precise positioning.
Virtual Reality
To track the user's head movements and provide a more immersive experience by mounting the sensors on a headset or other device worn by the user.
Sports
To measure the athlete's motion and provide feedback on their technique and help improve their performance and prevent injury.
Gait Analysis
To measure a patient's gait and identify any abnormalities in their walking patterns. Gait analysis can be helpful in diagnosing conditions such as Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, and stroke.
Fall Detection
To detect falls in elderly patients or those with balance issues, which can help caregivers or family members respond quickly and prevent injuries.
Rehabilitation
To monitor a patient's movements during exercises, track their progress, and help therapists customize treatment plans and improve outcomes.
Remote Patient Monitoring
To monitor patients remotely, and can be useful in tracking patients with chronic conditions or those who are recovering from surgery.
Automotive
To provide information on the vehicle's motion and orientation in order to control various systems, such as stability control, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure warning.
Aerospace
To provide information on the vehicle's motion and orientation through which the vehicle's attitude and ensure precise positioning can be controlled.
Posture Analysis
To monitor a patient's posture and identify any potential issues, which can be helpful in preventing conditions such as back pain and improving overall spinal health.
Sleep Monitoring
To monitor a patient's sleep patterns, help identify sleep disorders, and improve overall sleep quality.
News
Tactile Robotics enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University
Tactile Robotics enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University to conduct further research and beta testing of our inventions. This partnership is focused on several areas of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT), including iMotus technology with an application in rehabilitation. Dr. Kourosh Zareinia is the lead professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. While improving people’s health is his number 1 goal, Dr. Zareinia is also motivated by the economic reality of the Canadian population, drawing more and more on our healthcare system. For a solution, we look to robotics. “Long-term, robotics can reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of care by standardizing medical methods and treatments,” he says.
An interactive sensory system to record and monitor human motion in physical rehabilitation
This work presents the application of an interactive sensory system to sense, record, restore, and monitor the movement of objects such as the human body. The setup, consisting of a data streamer and a software development kit (SDK), has nine degrees of freedom (DoFs): three orientations (roll, pitch, and yaw angles), three linear accelerations, and three magnetic field components. The SKD is a graphical user interface (GUI) that records, restore, and analyzes the signal received from the data streamer and presents advanced statistical analysis, such as predicting the behaviour of the measured data in the future. An application claimed to provide patients with an accurate measurement that simplifies the tracking of performance and effectiveness of physical exercises and treatments. To show the proof of concept, we conducted an experimental study on the human hand at the iRobohabilitation Laboratory and quantified the signals measured by the sensory system in real-time.
Tactile Robotics receives a grant from NRC-IRAP to commercialize our Digital Health products including iMotus family
The project was funded to focus on the marketing and promotion of our digital health products, including products iManus and iMotus family that are used in rehabilitation, physiotherapy and kinesiology fields.
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