Human motion monitoring and analysis can be an essential part of a wide spectrum of applications, including physical rehabilitation among other potential areas of interest. Creating non-invasive systems for monitoring patients while performing rehabilitation exercises, to provide them with an objective feedback, is one of the current challenges. In this paper we present a wearable multi-sensor system for human motion monitoring, which has been developed for use in rehabilitation. It is composed of a number of small modules that embed high-precision accelerometers and wireless communications to transmit the information related to the body motion to an acquisition device. The results of a set of experiments we made to assess its performance in real-world setups demonstrate its usefulness in human motion acquisition and tracking, as required, for example, in activity recognition, physical/athletic performance evaluation and rehabilitation.

Design of a Wearable Sensing System for Human Motion Monitoring in Physical Rehabilitation / Lara González, Villanueva; Cagnoni, Stefano; Ascari, Luca. - In: SENSORS. - ISSN 1424-8220. - 13:6(2013), pp. 7735-7755. [10.3390/s130607735]

Design of a Wearable Sensing System for Human Motion Monitoring in Physical Rehabilitation

CAGNONI, Stefano;ASCARI, Luca
2013-01-01

Abstract

Human motion monitoring and analysis can be an essential part of a wide spectrum of applications, including physical rehabilitation among other potential areas of interest. Creating non-invasive systems for monitoring patients while performing rehabilitation exercises, to provide them with an objective feedback, is one of the current challenges. In this paper we present a wearable multi-sensor system for human motion monitoring, which has been developed for use in rehabilitation. It is composed of a number of small modules that embed high-precision accelerometers and wireless communications to transmit the information related to the body motion to an acquisition device. The results of a set of experiments we made to assess its performance in real-world setups demonstrate its usefulness in human motion acquisition and tracking, as required, for example, in activity recognition, physical/athletic performance evaluation and rehabilitation.
2013
Design of a Wearable Sensing System for Human Motion Monitoring in Physical Rehabilitation / Lara González, Villanueva; Cagnoni, Stefano; Ascari, Luca. - In: SENSORS. - ISSN 1424-8220. - 13:6(2013), pp. 7735-7755. [10.3390/s130607735]
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