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Portable Balance and Postural Sway Platform

Portable Balance and Postural Sway Platform

Portable Balance and Postural Sway Platform

Product catalog summary
Overview
AMTI's AccuSway Optimized™ is a portable multi-axis force platform designed for quantifying human balance and postural sway. It features a patented design that ensures high accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use. The platform integrates seamlessly with AMTI's software solutions like NetForce, Balance Clinic, and Balance Trainer, and supports plug & play USB connectivity for automatic synchronization of multiple platforms.
System Features
The AccuSway Optimized measures forces (Fx, Fy, Fz) and moments (Mx, My, Mz) with digital output via a USB 2.0 interface. It offers high overload protection and unprecedented accuracy, enhancing data quality for scientific research. The platform is portable, requiring no mounting, and includes a surface grid for plotting the center of pressure relative to foot position.
Software Integration
The platform supports plug-and-play integration with major motion capture systems and offers a free NetForce™ data acquisition application. Developers can request a C++ SDK and LabVIEW instrument driver. It integrates with AMTI's BioAnalysis, Balance Clinic, and Balance Trainer software, and synchronizes with other AMTI USB products.
Unprecedented Accuracy
AMTI's precision grid calibration technology significantly enhances the platform's accuracy by taking 1275 measurements in a grid pattern. This process reduces crosstalk and improves measurement accuracy by up to five times, verified using NIST-traceable weights. The platform is calibrated with five force values at 255 locations, ensuring high precision.
Specifications
The AccuSway Optimized has a force capacity of 250 lb (1112 N) for Fz, 40 lb (180 N) for Fx and Fy, and a moment capacity of 300 in-lb (34 Nm) for Mz. It features a digital data rate of 10 to 1000 data sets per second and requires a USB 2.0 interface. The platform is CE compliant and meets various medical-grade certifications.
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Portable Balance and Postural Sway Platform-1

Portable Balance and Postural Sway Platform  Unprecedented Accuracy Better Data for Better Science  Plug & Play USB Interface OVERVIEW AMTI's AccuSway Optimized™ multi-axis force platform is a portable solution for quantifying human balance and postural sway. The AccuSway’s innovative, patented design is accurate, economical, and easy to use with AMTI's powerful NetForce, Balance Clinic and Balance Trainer software. The plug & play USB interface automatically synchronizes multiple platforms and eliminates external power supplies. AccuSway Optimized attains unprecedented levels of accuracy for measuring Center of Pressure, forces and moments, as well as dramatic reductions in crosstalk. This breakthrough in performance is made possible by AMTI’s unique precision grid calibration technology. This new level of accuracy enables clinicians to make better patient measurements, and enables researchers to perform better science based on more accurate input data. The levels of accuracy achieved with AccuSway Optimized are a quantum leap over previous technologies used in the biomechanics industry. SYSTEM FEATURES Multi-Component Measurement Forces: Fx, Fy, Fz Moments: Mx, My, Mz Digital Output Plug & play USB 2.0 interface automatically synchronizes up to 12 AccuSway Optimized force platforms. High Overload Protection One-piece sensor element provides extremely high overload protection on a

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Portable - No Mounting Necessary Just place the platform on a flat surface and use. UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACY Convenient Surface Grid A grid on the surface of the platform provides base-of-support coordinates which can be combined with the balance data, allowing the center-of-pressure (COP) to be plotted relative to the subject's foot position. AMTI’s precision grid calibration technology optimizes each AccuSway Optimized force platform’s accuracy. By taking 1275 measurements in a grid pattern and using the points for calibration, enormous improvements in accuracy and reductions in crosstalk are...

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UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACY (cont.) The plots below show measured accuracy and crosstalk after optimization. The optimization process yields a dramatic improvement in performance. Center of Pressure Accuracy

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Portable Balance and Postural Sway Platform-4

SPECIFICATIONS Fz Capacity, lb (N) Fx, Fy Capacity, lb (N) Mz Capacity, in-lb (Nm) Resultant Moment Capacity- √(Mx2+My2), in-lb (Nm) Fz Natural Frequency Fx, Fy Natural Frequency Dimensions, in (mm) Weight, lb (kg) Digital Data Rate Interface Device Synchronization External Sync Signal Digital Data Transmission Power Supply Computer Requirements Filters Software Force Platform Capacity CE Certification 250 (1112) 40 (180) 300 (34) 1600 (181) 120 Hz 100 Hz 1.79 X 19.75 X 19.75 (45.5 X 502 X 502) 25 (11.4) 10 – 1000 data sets per second, user selectable USB 2.0 Automatic; ultra-low jitter Active...

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