Towards miniaturization of a MEMS-based wearable motion capture system

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3234-3241

  Brigante, Carmen M N ^a   Abbate, Nunzio ^a   Basile, Adriano ^a   Faulisi, Alessandro Carmelo ^a   Sessa, Salvatore ^b  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; extended Kalman filter (EKF); gyroscope; MEMS sensor; motion capture

Indexed keywords

BODY MOTIONS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MEMS SENSOR; MEMS SENSORS; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; MOTION CAPTURE; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SENSOR FUSION ALGORITHMS; THREE AXIS ACCELEROMETERS; THREE-AXIS GYROSCOPES; THREE-AXIS MAGNETOMETER; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETERS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; GYROSCOPES; POSITION CONTROL; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 79960374182     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2148671     Document Type: Article

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