Walking speed estimation using shank-mounted accelerometers

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5096-5101

  Bishop, E ^a   Li, Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER SIGNALS; DIRECT INTEGRATION; EMBEDDED CONTROL; ENERGY HARVESTER; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INVERTED PENDULUM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SPEED ESTIMATION; SPEED ESTIMATION ERROR; TREADMILL WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ACCELEROMETERS; ESTIMATION; ROBOTICS; SPEED; SPORTING GOODS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 77955827065     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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