Ubiquitous human upper-limb motion estimation using wearable sensors

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 513-521

  Zhang, Zhi Qiang ^a   Wong Sr , Wai Choong ^b   Wu, Jian Kang ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Body sensor network; forward kinematics; Kalman filter; ubiquitous motion modeling and estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; FOREARM MOVEMENT; FORWARD KINEMATICS; FORWARD KINEMATICS EQUATIONS; FUSION METHODS; HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE; INTERACTIVE GAMES; LINK STRUCTURE; MOTION CAPTURE; MOTION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; OPTICAL MOTION; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RESEARCH TOPICS; SKELETON STRUCTURE; UBIQUITOUS MOTION MODELING AND ESTIMATION; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER; UPPER LIMBS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WIDE SPECTRUM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; HEALTH CARE; KALMAN FILTERS; KINEMATICS; MICROSENSORS; SENSOR NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CLOTHING; ELBOW; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SHOULDER;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CLOTHING; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SHOULDER JOINT; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 79960538880     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2159122     Document Type: Article

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