A Portable System for Measuring Human Body Movement

Author

Bertolotti, G.M. ; Cristiani, A. ; Gandolfi, R. ; Lombardi, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pavia Univ.

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

576

Abstract

A low cost portable acquisition system for monitoring and processing human body segment movements is presented It is equipped with 32 multiplexed input channels, each one linked to an external 2 axis MEMS accelerometer. Input signals from sensors are converted into a digital form by a 10 bit analog to digital converter and transmitted via Bluetooth technology to a remote PC. The instrument is battery powered and then it can be used in applications like ergonomics, rehabilitation and sport medicine. Labview 7.1 has been used to visualize in real time the human body segment movements

Keywords

Bluetooth; accelerometers; analogue-digital conversion; bioMEMS; biomechanics; data acquisition; data visualisation; ergonomics; medical computing; sport; Bluetooth technology; Labview 7.1; MEMS accelerometer; analog-to-digital converter; battery powered instrument; ergonomics; human body movements measurement; multiplexed input channels; portable acquisition system; real time visualization; rehabilitation; sport medicine; Accelerometers; Analog-digital conversion; Anthropometry; Bluetooth; Costs; Humans; Instruments; Micromechanical devices; Monitoring; Motion measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2006. DSD 2006. 9th EUROMICRO Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2609-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2006.13

Filename

1690089