Design, implementation, and experimental results of a quaternion-based Kalman filter for human body motion tracking

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1216-1227

  Yun, Xiaoping ^a   Bachmann, Eric R ^b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertial sensors; Kalman filtering; Magnetic sensors; Motion measurement; Orientation tracking; Pose estimation; Quaternions; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; MAGNETOMETERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; TRACKING (POSITION); VIRTUAL REALITY;

INERTIAL SENSORS; MOTION MEASUREMENT; ORIENTATION TRACKING; POSE ESTIMATION; QUATERNIONS;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 33845529645     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.886270     Document Type: Article

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