Force Plate
Note :
AD analog force platforms and electromyography cannot be used together with USB digital force platforms;
AD analog force platforms and electromyography cannot be used together with network digital force platforms;
AD analog force platforms and electromyography cannot be used together with digital electromyography;
Connecting Bertec Force Platform in AD Analog Mode
XINGYING software supports the integration of Bertec force platform via NI6218/6225.
The AD access force platform scheme needs to use the camera's trigger synchronization, and the digital force platform does not use AD synchronization.
After the force platform is connected to the computer, the NI driver needs to be installed. After the driver installation is completed, open XINGYING, click on the force platform in the menu bar at the top of the software, select "Analog Configuration", and configure the analog channel of Bertec in the Analog Configuration window. Right-click in the list to select "Bertec--FP1", and you can configure the range of each channel according to the output range of the test platform you are connected to. Select a channel, and you can choose +/-10mV, +/-10V, etc. in the "Range" drop-down box of each analog channel. Click the "Select" button at the top left of the window to select all analog channels (16.1.1).
Click on the "ForcePlate" in the menu bar at the top of the software, select the "Force Platform Configuration" option, and click the "+" button in the Force Platform Configuration window to add a Bertec Force Platform (16.1.2);
Select the force platform name, and set the parameters of the Bertec force platform on the right: force platform specifications, position in space, direction and calibration matrix, then click "Apply" (16.1.3);
After configuring the analog channels, the AD analog force platform needs to manually check the "Enable AD" option (16.1.4). When using the AD analog force platform, if the "Enable AD" is checked without adding channels, the software will pop up a prompt saying "The number of analog channels and force platforms does not match". At this point, you need to first configure the analog channels and then check the "Enable AD" option;
Close the settings window, connect the camera, click the play button under the 3D view in Live mode, and we can see that the AD simulated Bertec force platform has been added to the coordinate system (16.1.5).
USB Access to Bertec Force Platform
Power on the force platform, the indicator light on the amplifier lights up, press the Zero button of the signal amplifier to zero the signal, and connect the analog signal line to the amplifier (16.1.6);
Connect the USB cable from the amplifier to the computer where the XINGYING software is located;
Open XINGYING software, click on the force platform menu bar, choose "Force Platform Configuration", in the "Other Configurations" at the bottom of the Force Platform Configuration window, check the "Digital ForcePlate(USB)" option (16.1.7), click "+" will automatically add a Bertec force platform. Select the force platform name, set the length and width according to the size of the force platform in the "Force Plate" on the right of the window; The parameters in "Orientation in Volume, Position in Volume" can use the system default parameters, or you can modify the parameters according to your needs. The "Serial ID" at the bottom right of the window will display the serial number of the force platform. After configuring the force platform parameters, click the "Apply" button to save this configuration;
Close the Force Platform Configuration window, connect the camera, click the play button in the Live 3D view mode, at this point the Bertec force plate, which has been connected via USB, has been added to the 3D view and is ready for use.
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