Soft wearable motion sensing suit for lower limb biomechanics measurements

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5309-5316

  Menguc, Yigit ^a,b   Park, Yong Lae ^a,b   Martinez Villalpando, Ernesto ^a,b   Aubin, Patrick ^a,b   Zisook, Miriam ^a   Stirling, Leia ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a,b   Walsh, Conor J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; EMBEDDED MICROCHANNELS; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; OPTICAL MOTION CAPTURE; SILICONE ELASTOMERS;

BIOMECHANICS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); SENSORS; SILICONES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887291304     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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