CalTester

What is CalTester?

The essential tool to check forces with motion capture systems.

CalTester is a laboratory quality assurance tool for validating the laboratory configurations of force plates, instrumented conveyors, and motion capture systems by verifying the spatial synchronization of your motion capture systems and forces. It was originally developed for laboratory accreditation efforts because accurate and reliable kinematic and kinetic data are essential for motion analysis data in research settings.

Errors in parameter settings or input calibration measurements will lead to incorrect values for kinematic and/or kinetic variables calculated during a motion analysis. CalTester will find these errors.

CalTester should be used before each motion capture session to validate lab settings. This simple test only takes a few minutes and should be performed before any data collection to ensure that your data collection will be correct.

CalTester Software.

Calculates the orientation and position of the rod tip from the force platform data and compares these measurements to the orientation and position of the motion capture data.

The degree of agreement between these two independent measurements provides an evaluation of the relevant C3D parameters.

The resulting report can then be examined and any issues found can be corrected and documented to keep a record of the status of the labs.

CalTester Hardware.

The CalTester rod is placed on the force plate or on the mat with a plate at the top and bottom to focus the forces on the end points. A good dose of pressure should be used to push down and move the rod while capturing the movement.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768