Compact sensing design of a handheld active tremor compensation instrument

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1864-1871

  Latt, Win Tun ^a   Tan, U Xuan ^a   Shee, Cheng Yap ^a   Riviere, Cameron N ^b   Ang, Wei Tech ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer placement; Compact sensing design; Handheld instruments; Physiological tremor compensation

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; COMPACT SENSING DESIGN; HANDHELDS; PHYSIOLOGICAL TREMOR COMPENSATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SENSING RESOLUTION; SENSING UNIT; THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 79951521613     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2030980     Document Type: Article

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