Heeluxe TRAX System
Next Level Shoe Traction
Description
Over $70 billion are spent annually on slip and fall related injuries in the workplace. The lack of an adequate shoe traction testing standard has prohibited accurate and reliable shoe traction measurements. The Heeluxe Shoe Traction Testing Team has revolutionized this standard in designing a modular, mechanical system founded on the biomechanical principles of the human gait. A double acting piston drives the 3 DOF biped through an inverted pendulum motion resulting in a dissipative collision between the shoe sole and the ground. A force plate measures the forces in the vertical and horizontal directions that combine to result in a non-dimensional horizontal force scalar known as the coefficient of friction. With the ability to control the ankle angle, leg angle, walking speed, and total mass, this system is guaranteed to outperform the oversimplified methods used by the leading competitors in shoe traction testing.