Wearable Human Movement Instrumentation System

Mokhlespour Esfahani, Mohammad Iman; Zobeiri, Omid; Akbari, Ali; Moshiri, Behzad; Parnianpour, Mohammad

doi:10.22041/ijbme.2014.13284

Wearable Human Movement Instrumentation System

Document Type : Technical note

Authors

Mohammad Iman Mokhlespour Esfahani ¹

Omid Zobeiri ¹

Ali Akbari ¹

Behzad Moshiri ²

Mohammad Parnianpour ³

¹ M.Sc., Laboratory of Wearable Technologies and Neuromusculoskeletal Research, School of Mechanical Eng., Sharif University of Technology

² Professor, Industrial Automation & Intelligent Information Processing Lab, School of Elec. & Comp. Engineering, University of Tehran

³ Adjunct Professor, Laboratory of Wearable Technology and Neuromusculoskeletal Research, School of Mechanical Eng., Sharif University of Technology

https://doi.org/10.22041/ijbme.2014.13284

Abstract

Wearable measuring system has major effects onbiomechanics of human movements especially in daily activitiesin order to monitor and analyze the human movements to achievethe most important kinematics parameters. In the recent decade,inertial sensors were utilized by researchers in order todeveloping wearable system for instrumentation of humanmovements. In this study, Sharif-Human MovementInstrumentation System (SHARIF-HMIS) was designed andmanufactured. The system consists of inertial measurement units(IMUs), stretchable clothing and data logger. The IMU sensorsare installed on the human body. The system can be used at homeand also industrial environments. The main features of thissystem are: low cost, low weight, saving data for ten hours andbeing wearable. Furthermore, the software was designed for data acquisition of the IMUs.

Keywords

Wearable system

measurement system

Data Fusion

inertial sensor

human movement

Subjects

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