Estimation of minimum ground clearance (MGC) using body-worn inertial sensors

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1083-1088

  McGrath, Denise ^a   Greene, Barry R ^b   Walsh, Cathal ^c   Caulfield, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Intel Research Cambridge Lab   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Falls risk; Inertial sensor; Minimum ground clearance

Indexed keywords

BODY-WORN SENSORS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FALLS RISK; GAIT PATTERN; GROUND CLEARANCE; INERTIAL SENSOR; MINIMUM GROUND CLEARANCE; MOUNTED SENSORS; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; OPTICAL MARKERS; OPTICAL MOTION CAPTURE; REGRESSION MODEL; TRACKING SYSTEM; WALKING SPEED;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; ESTIMATION; GAIT ANALYSIS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SENSORS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GAIT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MINIMUM GROUND CLEARANCE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WALKING;

EID: 79953026989     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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