SBIR/STTR Research Award
STABILITY FORCE PLATFORM
Award amount
$203,421Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Advanced Mechanical Technology, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- MG35UP27ERW6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
MEASUREMENT OF POSTURAL SWAY IS NOW BEING USED TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS, TOXINS, AND AGING ON THE NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM OF HUMANS AND TO DEVISE STRATEGIES TO HELP ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS REDUCE THE RISK OF FALLING. ONE POPULAR METHOD OF MEASURING SWAY IS WITH A FORCE PLATFORM; HOWEVER, CURRENT FORCE PLATFORMS ARE DESIGNED FOR MORE DEMANDING APPLICATIONS THAN MONITORING HUMAN SWAY. IT IS PLANNED TO DESIGN A LOW-COST FORCE PLATFORM SPECIFICALLY FOR SWAY MEASUREMENT AND TO FABRICATE A PROTOTYPE UNIT. THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO MAKE THIS TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO A WIDE RANGE OF POTENTIAL USERS BY DEVELOPING A SYSTEM THAT IS HALF THE COST OF CURRENT SYSTEMS.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Thermoelectric-Powered Field Kitchen Appliances
- Thermoelectric-Powered Field Kitchen Appliances
- A functional and multimodal biofeedback device to treat balance dysfunction in mTBI patients.
- Modified Collins Cryocooler for Cryo-Propellant Thermal Management
- Modified Collins Cryocooler for Cryo-Propellant Thermal Management