A Control System Approach for a Treadmill Walking Compensation Design

Abstract

Virtual Reality has known exponential development in recent years, its advantages extending over a large number of other domains, like Medicine and the Automation Industry. The common treadmill is taken to another level by simulating locomotion in virtual environments, extending its usage. The purpose of this paper is to present an adapted treadmill capable of compensating the user’s walking speed and direction with use in different domains, particularly in Virtual Reality. The system is fully adaptive because of its new concept control system and it allows the user to walk more naturally than in the classic treadmill case.