A threshold-based fall-detection algorithm using a bi-axial gyroscope sensor

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-90

  Bourke, A K ^a   Lyons, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Activities of Daily Living; Fall detection; Falls in the elderly; Gyroscope; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; DATA REDUCTION; GYROSCOPES; SENSORS;

FALL DETECTION; GYROSCOPE SENSOR; TRUNK-ANGLE;

ALGORITHMS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GYROSCOPE SENSOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIMULATION; TRUNK;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; GAIT; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 38149045656     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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