Acquisition and analysis of tremor signals using force and accelerometer sensors

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1728-1732

  Hagan, Marins ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

acceleration sensor; capacitive force sensors; FFT transform; gripping force; hand tremor

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION DATA; ACCELERATION SENSORS; ACCELEROMETER SENSOR; CAPACITIVE FORCES; DAILY ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; GRIPPING FORCE; HAND TREMORS; HEALTHY PERSONS; NOVEL DEVICES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;

ACCELEROMETERS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS;

EID: 84869797485     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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