EFFECT OF THE PLACEMENT OF THE INERTIAL SENSOR ON THE HUMAN MOTION DETECTION

Authors

  • Julien Collet
  • Martin Cerny
  • Ludovic Delporte
  • Norbert Noury

Keywords:

actimetry monitoring, embedded systems, inertial sensors

Abstract

There are numerous possibilities of assessments of the human activity, offered by the ActimedARM -a wearable inertial sensor we developed. This device features a triaxial magnetometer, a trixial accelerometer, a micro-processing unit, a Zigbee module and a μSD card. Its embedded algorithms make it able to compute postures, transfers of the subject and also to characterize the walking episodes. We recently succeeded in computing the relative displacements of the sensors, from double integration of the acceleration signals, in order to qualify specific physical activities such as rising from chairs or stools. The experiments highlighted the impact of the location of the sensor on the body on the correlation between objective motion and signals processed from acceleration measurements, showing a better correlation coefficient of 11.41% when the sensor is located on the navel.

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Published

2014-12-30

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Original Research