Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 27, 2021
When the displacement of an object is evaluated using sensor data, its movement back to the starting point can be used to correct the measurement error of the sensor. In medicine, the movements of chest compressions also involve a reciprocating movem...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 21, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Monitoring athlete internal workload exposure, including prevention of catastrophic non-contact knee injuries, relies on the existence of a custom early-warning detection system. This system must be able to estimate accurate, reliable, and...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 15, 2020
Recent trends in ubiquitous computing have led to a proliferation of studies that focus on human activity recognition (HAR) utilizing inertial sensor data that consist of acceleration, orientation and angular velocity. However, the performances of su...
Gait & posture
Nov 10, 2020
BACKGROUND: Gait event detection of the initial contact and toe off is essential for running gait analysis, allowing the derivation of parameters such as stance time. Heuristic-based methods exist to estimate these key gait events from tibial acceler...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 9, 2020
Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) have become a popular solution for tracking human motion. The main problem of using IMU data for deriving the position of different body segments throughout time is related to the accumulation of the errors in the in...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Oct 28, 2020
Pre-impact fall detection can detect a fall before a body segment hits the ground. When it is integrated with a protective system, it can directly prevent an injury due to hitting the ground. An impact acceleration peak magnitude is one of key measur...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 21, 2020
Inspired by the fastest observed live fishes, we have designed, built and tested a robotic fish that emulates the fast-start maneuver of these fishes and generates acceleration and velocity magnitudes comparable to those of the live fishes within the...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 29, 2020
Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) uses inertial measurement units (IMUs) and combines velocity and orientation estimates to determine a position. The estimation of the velocity is still challenging, as the integration of noisy acceleration and angular ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 10, 2020
In recent years, as the mechanical structure of humanoid robots increasingly resembles the human form, research on pedestrian navigation technology has become of great significance for the development of humanoid robot navigation systems. To solve th...
Scientific reports
Mar 10, 2020
Prevalence of gait impairments increases with age and is associated with mobility decline, fall risk and loss of independence. For geriatric patients, the risk of having gait disorders is even higher. Consequently, gait assessment in the clinics has ...