Inertial sensing in ambulatory back load estimation

Author

Baten, Chris TM ; Oosterhoff, Peter ; Kingma, Idsart ; Veltink, Peter H. ; Hermens, Hermie J.

Author_Institution

Roessing Res. & Dev., Enschede, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

497

Abstract

Inertial sensing techniques are applied to ambulatory assess back movement in a system for ambulatory estimation of low back load. A combination of a accelerometer and a miniature solid state rate gyroscope was proposed and validated against movement data recorded simultaneously with a 3D video based movement analysis system. The inertial sensing technique appeared to estimate absolute back inclination angle with a typical relative error of ±10%

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical measurement; kinematics; mechanical variables measurement; 3D video based movement analysis system; absolute back inclination angle; accelerometer; ambulatory back load estimation; inertial sensing technique; low back pain; medical measurement technique; miniature solid state rate gyroscope; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Artificial neural networks; Calibration; Gyroscopes; Instruments; Kinematics; Muscles; Solid state circuits; Strips;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.651834

Filename

651834