A method to align the coordinate system of accelerometers to the axes of a human body: The depitch algorithm

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-103

  Gietzelt, Matthias ^a   Schnabel, Stephan ^b   Wolf, Klaus Hendrik ^a   Büsching, Felix ^a   Song, Bianying ^a   Rust, Stefan ^a   Marschollek, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE ENGINEERING AND THIN FILMS IST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Axes alignment; Coordinate system; Gait analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HUMAN BODIES; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; GAIT ANALYSIS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSOR; TRUNK; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84859346880     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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