A wireless trigger for synchronization of wearable sensors to external systems during recording of human gait

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4537-4540

  Kugler, Patrick ^a   Schlarb, Heiko ^b   Blinn, Joerg ^c   Picard, Antoni ^c   Eskofier, Bjoern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Ait Research   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KAISERSLAUTERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; DELAY AND JITTER; EXTERNAL SYSTEMS; GAIT PARAMETERS; GROUND TRUTH; HUMAN GAIT; INERTIAL SENSOR; KINEMATIC DATA; LOW JITTERS; MEAN DELAYS; MOTION CAPTURING; TRIGGER SYSTEMS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

GAIT ANALYSIS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; JITTER; KINEMATICS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TRIGGER CIRCUITS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

ACCELERATION; ACTIMETRY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GAIT; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMETRY;

ACCELERATION; ACTIGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84870791182     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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