Giorgia Palotti

Ms. Giorgia Palotti

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 October 2025
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CFCarlalberto Francia
Carlalberto Francia
Lucia DonnoLucia Donno
Lucia Donno
SCSerena Chiosso
Serena Chiosso
GPGiorgia Palotti
Giorgia Palotti
Marco TarabiniMarco Tarabini
Marco Tarabini
MGManuela Galli
Manuela Galli

15 October 2026 in Applied Sciences
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SCSara Del Chicca
Sara Del Chicca
FMFilippo Motta
Filippo Motta
GPGiorgia Palotti
Giorgia Palotti
COChiara Orsanigo
Chiara Orsanigo
NSNicole Sanna
Nicole Sanna
Diego ScaccabarozziDiego Scaccabarozzi
Diego Scaccabarozzi
Running-specific prostheses are widely used in Paralympic sport and their performance assessment under real running conditions requires wearable monitoring systems capable of capturing both prosthesis dynamics and athlete kinematics. Existing solutions have been validated in laboratory settings and short trials, leaving open challenges related to autonomy, robustness, and applicability to prolong outdoor running. This study aimed to design and evaluate a wearable IMU-based monitoring system for assessing prosthesis dynamics and athlete kinematics during long-distance running. Four IMU sensors mounted on prosthetic blades and sockets were deployed, addressing practical constraints of battery life, memory, and outdoor robustness. The system was tested during a 35 km trail running race by a former Paralympic athlete with bilateral transtibial amputation. The race course was segmented into nine slope-based sectors, and stride-level metrics, including impact acceleration, vibration peak, damping ratio, and damped natural frequency, were extracted from blade-mounted IMU data and compared across sectors using non-parametric statistics and effect size measures. The results suggest that the proposed system may capture meaningful variations in prosthesis dynamics across different running conditions, with moderate to large effect sizes observed for most metrics. These preliminary findings support the feasibility of the proposed approach for in-field prosthesis monitoring.

17 July 2026
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Lucia DonnoLucia Donno
Lucia Donno
SRSamuele Ravazzani
Samuele Ravazzani
GPGiorgia Palotti
Giorgia Palotti
CPChiara Piazzalunga
Chiara Piazzalunga
CFCarlalberto Francia
Carlalberto Francia
MGManuela Galli
Manuela Galli