Three-dimensional motion analysis systems and force plates are used for gait phase detection and ground reaction force(GRF) or ground reaction moment(GRM) data collection. But force plates as measurement systems are restricted to laboratory environments and have limitations for abnormal walking with foot dragging. Therefore the methods were proposed to compute the GRM from the kinematic data of three-dimensional motion analysis systems. Gait phase detection with kinematic data using foot velocity algorithm(FVA) was performed. The validity of gait phase detection was obtained comparing with the results of force plates. A gait model with 7 segments was composed to compute GRM. The results of gait model with kinematic data were compared with those of force plates. The result of the vertical direction is similar. But anterior-posterior direction and lateral direction show similar tendency with some gaps.

In this study, we studied the damage area detection of the composite tension specimens under fatigue loading by using image processing techniques. The aim of this study is to detect the area of the damage region on the basis of original image. Basically we have used Matlab program. This study analyzed a total of six specimens under cyclic loading and the results using a user algorithm and analysis procedures of step 7. The damaged area was well detected except 3,000 cyclic loading. Accuracy of damage area detection is determined to be excellent by 83.3%(5/6). In general, however, in order to automatically detect the damaged area must develop an algorithm for setting the number of multi-threshold automatically. This is to perform the studies in the future.

In this paper, we study the calculation for the fracture area of the composite material specimens using digital image processing techniques. This study was able to calculate the area of the fracture region through the main operation step 7 on the basis of improved image. To extract the area in the original image, we have to use opening operation, close operation, the Hit-or-Miss operation and Bottom hat filter, Top hat filter, etc. In particular, to extract the area of the composite specimen discussed in this study, we have to use the combination of the operations and filters because it is non-isotropic material, or should develop a new algorithm based on it.