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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Design and Validation of a Device Attached to a Conventional Bicycle to Measure the Three-Dimensional Forces Applied to a Pedal.

Ezequiel Martín-Sosa, Víctor Chaves, Ignacio Alvarado, Juana Mayo, Joaquín Ojeda

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ezequiel Martín-SosaDepartamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Fabricación, Escuela Superior Técnica de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.
Víctor ChavesDepartamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Fabricación, Escuela Superior Técnica de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.
Ignacio AlvaradoDepartamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Escuela Superior Técnica de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2238-8926
Juana MayoDepartamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Fabricación, Escuela Superior Técnica de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.
Joaquín OjedaDepartamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Fabricación, Escuela Superior Técnica de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6894-197X
Universidad de Sevilla · ES

Funding

Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España DPI2016-80796-P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge of the forces applied to the pedals during cycling is of great importance both from the point of view of improving sporting performance and medical analysis of injuries. The most common equipment for measuring pedal forces is usually limited to the study of forces in the sagittal plane. Equipment that measures three-dimensional forces tends to be bulky and to be incorporated into bicycles that are modified to accommodate it, which can cause the measurements taken to differ from those obtained in real pedalling conditions. This work presents a device for measuring the 3D forces applied to the pedal, attachable to a conventional bicycle and pedals, which does not alter the natural pedalling of cyclists. The equipment consists of four gauges located on the pedal axis and two on the crank, controlled by a microcontroller. Pedal forces measurements were made for six cyclists, with results similar to those shown in the literature. The correct estimation of the lateral-medial direction force is of great interest when evaluating a possible overload at the joints; it will also allow a comparison of the effectiveness index during pedalling, showing the role of this component in this index from a mechanical standpoint.

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BicyclingSportsBiomechanical PhenomenaFoot3D pedal forcescyclingeffectiveness indexlateral-medial forcepedalling powerradial forcestrain gagestangential force

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PMID34283156
PMCPMC8272058
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