MARS, a multi-agent system for assessing rowers' coordination via motion-based stigmergy

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 12218-12243

  Avvenuti, Marco ^a   Cesarini, Daniel ^a   Cimino, Mario G C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Emergent approach; Multi agent systems; Sports performance analysis; Stigmergy; Wireless motion sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; SENSORS; SPORTS;

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; COOPERATION MECHANISM; EMERGENT APPROACH; MOTION SENSING; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPORTS PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; STIGMERGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84884400439     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130912218     Document Type: Article

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