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

Sensors

Lara González-Villanueva²  Stefano Cagnoni¹ 

[1] IBIS Lab, Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy; E-Mail:;Henesis S.r.l., Viale dei Mille 108, 43125 Parma, Italy; E-Mail:

关键词: human motion monitoring;    wireless body area networks;    sensors;    accelerometers;    communication protocol;    data synchronization;    physical rehabilitation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s130607735

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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