A factorized quaternion approach to determine the arm motions using triaxial accelerometers with anatomical and sensor constraints

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1793-1802

  Lee, Guo Xiong ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Human arm motion; Quaternion

Indexed keywords

ARM MOTIONS; AXIS OF ROTATION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; HUMAN ARM; HUMAN ARM MOTION; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; QUATERNION; RANGE OF MOTIONS; REDUCED COST; TILTED PLANES; TRANSIENT STATE; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; UPPER ARM; VERTICAL PLANE;

SENSORS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 84861199734     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2181884     Document Type: Article

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