Textile-based electrogoniometers for wearable posture and gesture capture systems

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1014-1024

  Lorussi, Federico ^a   Galatolo, Stefano ^a   De Rossi, Danilo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon elastomers; Electrogoniometers; Terms biomechanical variable analysis

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE SYSTEM; ELECTROGONIOMETERS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN POSTURES; JOINT ANGLE; LOCAL CURVATURE; PIEZO-RESISTIVE; SCREEN-PRINTED; SENSITIVE MATERIALS; TERMS-BIOMECHANICAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; TOTAL CURVATURE;

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTOMERS; SENSORS;

RUBBER;

EID: 68949093896     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2024867     Document Type: Article

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