Development and validation of a wearable inertial measurement system for use with lower limb exoskeletons

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 212-217

  Beravs, Tadej ^a   Reberšek, Peter ^a   Novak, Domen ^a   Podobnik, Janez ^a   Munih, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

exoskeleton; human movement analysis; inertial measurement unit; sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

EXOSKELETON; HUMAN JOINTS; HUMAN MOVEMENT ANALYSIS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; KALMAN-FILTERING; LOWER LIMB; OPEN ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; OPTOTRAK; SENSOR FUSION; SMALL SIZE; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

ACCELEROMETERS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84856331315     PISSN: 21640572     EISSN: 21640580     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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