A motion capture system for sport training and rehabilitation

Author

Mirabella, Orazio ; Raucea, Antonino ; Fisichella, Fausto ; Gentile, Luigi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

19-21 May 2011

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

59

Abstract

This paper presents a motion capture system which provides both an accurate measurement of some motion parameters of a human arm and a graphical reconstruction of the movement on a synthetic model. The hardware uses several MEMS inertial sensors whose data are processed using mathematical tools based on quaternions. Measurements on a prototype have proven the system to be very accurate, since through the sensors placed on the joints of the arms it was possible to extract a video motion very faithful to the real.

Keywords

image motion analysis; image sensors; micromechanical devices; motion measurement; sport; training; video signal processing; MEMS inertial sensor; graphical reconstruction; human arm; mathematical tools; motion capture system; motion parameter measurement; quaternions; sport training; synthetic model; video motion; Graphics; Joints; Magnetic sensors; Monitoring; Quaternions; Servers; Kinematics; MEMS; Motion capture; Quaternions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interactions (HSI), 2011 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

2158-2246

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9638-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2011.5937342

Filename

5937342