Application of a full body inertial measurement system in alpine skiing: A comparison with an optical video based system

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 516-521

  Krüger, Andreas ^a   Edelmann Nusser, Jürgen ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; DGPS; Inertial motion capturing; Three dimensional kinematics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; ORTHOPEDICS;

ACCURACY; DGPS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; INERTIAL MOTIONS; OPTICAL METHODS; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL KINEMATICS; VIDEO-BASED SYSTEMS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COST; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FULL BODY INERTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATICS; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIING; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 79551510115     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.26.4.516     Document Type: Article

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