A portable magnetic position and orientation tracker

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 426-432

  Roetenberg, D ^a,b   Slycke, P ^b   Ventevogel, A ^c   Veltink, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Xsens Technologies   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambulant; Human motion; Magnetic tracker

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC SENSORS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRACKING (POSITION);

HUMAN MOTION; MAGNETIC TRACKER; ORIENTATION TRACKER;

PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34047152990     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2006.08.020     Document Type: Article

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