Objective
Foot diseases are indeed recognized as a wide societal problem and the large majority of people affected are women. This problem is particularly relevant if we consider that 25% of the diabetic population suffer from feet diseases and alterations. Our project aims at developing a novel ergonomie, comfortable, shock-absorbing and highly recyclable sole able to real time auto-shape itself based on magneto-rheological (MR) fluids.
Our idea is to instantaneously and cost-effectively vary the stiffness and shape according to the different pressure produced while walking or running onto the different areas of the sole, through the application of a low-power micro-controller powered by embedded piezoelectric foils.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine endocrinology diabetes
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pathology
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-SME-1
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GENOVA
Italy
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