A new real-time fall detection approach using fuzzy logic and a neural network

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Wearable, Micro, and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health: "Facing Future Healthcare Needs", pHealth 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 57-60

  Dinh, Christoph ^a   Struck, Matthias ^b  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; METADATA; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ACCELERATION DATA; AVERAGE SENSITIVITIES; CARTESIAN COORDINATE; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; FUZZY LOGIC INFERENCE; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHODS; SPHERICAL COORDINATES;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 79956132221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PHEALTH.2009.5754822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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