Capturing the overarm throw in darts employing wireless inertial measurement

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1441-1444

  Walsh, Michael ^a   Barton, John ^a   O'Flynn, Brendan ^a   O'Mathuna, Cian ^a   Tyndyk, Magdalena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

3D motion capture; kinematic model; wireless inertial measurement

Indexed keywords

3D MOTION CAPTURE; BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; BIOMECHANICAL FACTORS; BODY AREA NETWORK; GOLD STANDARDS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; KINEMATIC MODEL; SCORING PERFORMANCE;

BIOMECHANICS; KINEMATICS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84856879506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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