Sensor fusion-oriented fall detection for assistive technologies applications

ISDA 2009 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 673-678

  Cagnoni, Stefano ^a   Matrella, Guido ^a   Mordonini, Monica ^a   Sassi, Federico ^b   Ascari, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Camlin Technologies AG   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BIO-INSPIRED ALGORITHMS; FALL DETECTION; FALL DETECTORS; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC; SENSOR FUSION; TEMPORAL MEMORY;

SENSORS;

EID: 77949496588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISDA.2009.203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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