Compact Sensing Design of a Hand-held Active Tremor Compensation Instrument for Better Ergonomics

Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 276-281

  Latt, W T ^a   Tan, U X ^a   Widjaja, F ^a   Shee, C Y ^a   Ang, W T ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ERGONOMICS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

ANGULAR ACCELERATIONS; BODY FRAMES; NATURAL DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION INFORMATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 63049111847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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