A novel procedure for in-field calibration of sourceless inertial/magnetic orientation tracking wearable devices

Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 471-476

  Campolo, D ^a   Fabris, M ^a   Cavallo, G ^a   Accoto, D ^b   Keller, F ^a   Guglielmelli, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inertial magnetic sensors; Movement analysis; Posture tracking; Wearable technology

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CALIBRATION; MAGNETOMETERS; ROBOTICS; TRACKING (POSITION);

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC SENSORS; MOVEMENT ANALYSIS; POSTURE TRACKING; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 33845573366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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