Improvement of walking speed prediction by accelerometry and altimetry, validated by satellite positioning

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 164-168

  Perrin, O ^b   Terrier, P ^a   Ladetto, Q ^b   Merminod, B ^b   Schutz, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Differential barometry; Differential satellite positioning; Human locomotion; Uphill and downhill walking

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEED;

DOWNHILL WALKING; UPHILL WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0034070076     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02344771     Document Type: Article

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