Experimental evaluation of accuracy and repeatability of a novel body-to-sensor calibration procedure for inertial sensor-based gait analysis

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 145-155

  Palermo, Eduardo ^a,b   Rossi, Stefano ^b,c   Marini, Francesca ^d   Patanè, Fabrizio ^a,b   Cappa, Paolo ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomical calibration; Gait analysis; IMU MIMU; Inertial sensors; Joint angular kinematics

Indexed keywords

GAIT ANALYSIS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SENSORS;

ACCURACY AND REPEATABILITIES; ANATOMICAL CALIBRATION; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; IMU/MIMU; INERTIAL SENSOR; MAGNETIC FIELD DISTORTION; OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84898073753     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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