Human Joint Angle Estimation with Inertial Sensors and Validation with A Robot Arm

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1759-1767

  El Gohary, Mahmoud ^a   McNames, James ^a  

^a ADPM Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertial Measurement Units; Inertial sensors; Joint Angle Tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GYROSCOPES; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-PRECISION INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL SENSOR; JOINT ANGLE; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETRY; ALGORITHM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; ELBOW FLEXION; HUMAN; INERTIAL SENSOR; JOINT ANGLE ESTIMATION; JOINT FUNCTION; MAGNETOMETRY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; RANGE OF MOTION; ROBOTICS; SHOULDER; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; UPPER LIMB;

ACCELEROMETRY; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROBOTICS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84933055653     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2403368     Document Type: Article

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