A method to deal with installation errors of wearable accelerometers for human activity recognition

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-358

  Jiang, Ming ^a   Shang, Hong ^b   Wang, Zhelong ^a,c   Li, Hongyi ^c   Wang, Yuechao ^c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE SUPPORT SERVICE   (China)

^c SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

accelerometer; calibration; Gram Schmidt orthonormalization; human activity recognition; installation error

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; LOW PASS FILTERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WEARABLE SENSORS;

DAILY ACTIVITY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GAIT PARAMETERS; GRAM-SCHMIDT; GRAM-SCHMIDT ORTHONORMALIZATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; INSTALLATION ERROR; METABOLIC ENERGY; ORTHONORMALIZATION; TRANSFORMATION MATRIX;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 79952177826     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/32/3/006     Document Type: Article

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