An accurate and robust gyroscope-based pedometer

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4587-4590

  Lim, Yoong P ^a   Brown, Ian T ^a   Khoo, Joshua C T ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYROSCOPES;

APRIORI KNOWLEDGE; MICRO-MACHINED GYROSCOPES;

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGOMETRY; FOOT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGOMETRY; FOOT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84903867219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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