Automatic self-calibration of body worn triaxial-accelerometers for application in healthcare

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2008, PervasiveHealth

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 177-180

  Gietzelt, Matthias ^a   Wolf, Klaus Hendrik ^b   Marschollek, Michael ^b   Haux, Reinhold ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acceleration; Calibration; Pattern recognition; Wearable sensor

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CALIBRATION; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; WEIGHT CONTROL;

ACCELERATION; ACCELERATION SENSORS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; ERROR SOURCES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; REGION -OF-INTEREST; SELF-CALIBRATION; SENSOR SYSTEMS; USER INTERACTIONS; WEARABLE SENSOR;

HEALTH;

EID: 52149092517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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