A fast quaternion-based orientation optimizer via virtual rotation for human motion tracking

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1574-1582

  Lee, Jung Keun ^a   Park, Edward J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gauss Newton (G N) optimizer; Human motion tracking; Inertial magnetic sensing; Quaternion; Vector selector; Virtual rotation

Indexed keywords

GAUSS NEWTON (G-N) OPTIMIZER; HUMAN MOTION TRACKING; INERTIAL/MAGNETIC SENSING; QUATERNION; VIRTUAL ROTATION;

RADIOMETRY; ROTATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAUSS NEWTON METHOD; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; QUATERNION BASED ORIENTATION OPTIMIZER; ROTATION; SENSOR; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING;

EID: 67649233849     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2001285     Document Type: Article

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