Development of wearable gait evaluation system: A preliminary test of measurement of joint angles and stride length

BIOSIGNALS 2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 245-250

  Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Saito, Hiroki ^a   Koike, Eri ^a   Nitta, Kazuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Gait; Gyroscope; Joint angle; Kalman filter; Stride length

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC POINT; EVALUATION SYSTEM; GAIT; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; JOINT ANGLE; LOWER LIMB; MEASURED DATA; OPTICAL MOTION; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STRIDE LENGTH; WALKING SPEED; WEARABLE SENSOR SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETERS; GYROSCOPES; HEALTH CARE; KALMAN FILTERS; MEASUREMENTS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; WALKING AIDS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 79960261521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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