A new flexible optical fiber goniometer for dynamic angular, measurements: Application to human joint movement monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1614-1620

  Donno, Massimiliano ^a   Palange, Elia ^b   Di Nicola, Fabio ^b   Bucci, Giovanni ^b   Ciancetta, Fabrizio ^b  

^a Accelera Srl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angular measurements; Human joint measurements; Human motion tracking; Optical fiber sensors; Optical goniometer

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; FIBER OPTICS; MODULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; ROTATION; SENSORS; STANDARDS; TESTING;

BEAM PROPAGATING; BENDING ANGLES; CENTER OF ROTATION (COR); ELECTROGONIOMETERS; ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS; HIGH ACCURACY; HIGH SPEEDS; HUMAN JOINTS; INTENSITY MODULATION (IM); JOINT MOVEMENTS; LABORATORY TESTING; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); RELATIVE ANGLE (RA); SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBERS; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); VARIABLE ROTATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 48749131345     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.925336     Document Type: Article

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