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Authors:
Irvin Hussein López-Nava
Francisco Márquez-Aquino
Angélica Muñoz-Meléndez
David Carrillo-López
Héctor Simón Vargas-Martínez
Keywords: ubiquitous healthcare; real-time medical data collection; systems for measuring tissue parameters
Abstract:
This research deals with the design and program- ming of devices for measuring automatically human motion using portable and low-cost technologies. The movements studied in this research are pronation/supination, flexion/extension and abduc- tion/adduction of the upper and lower limb, which are required for a number of activities of daily living. A home-made attitude and heading reference system based on inertial and magnetic sensor is presented. It was compared with a similar device available in the market, and with respect to a video-camera based system used as gold standard. An experimental platform was also built for controlling and replicating experiments. The results obtained by the proposed device are competitive and promising with a general performance comparable to a commercial device
Pages: 55 to 60
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: July 19, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4553
ISBN: 978-1-61208-424-4
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015