Title :
An accurate and robust gyroscope-gased pedometer
Author :
Lim, Yoong P. ; Brown, Ian T. ; Khoo, Joshua C T
Author_Institution :
Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering (MUCBE), Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
Abstract :
Pedometers are known to have steps estimation issues. This is mainly attributed to their innate acceleration based measuring sensory. A micro-machined gyroscope (better immunity to acceleration) based pedometer is proposed. Through syntactic data recognition of apriori knowledge of human shank´s dynamics and temporally précised detection of heel strikes permitted by Wavelet decomposition, an accurate and robust pedometer is acquired.
Keywords :
Acceleration; Accelerometers; Counting circuits; Gyroscopes; Humans; Immune system; Legged locomotion; Robustness; Senior citizens; Skeleton; Acceleration; Algorithms; Biomechanics; Equipment Design; Ergometry; Foot; Humans; Models, Statistical; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Monitoring, Physiologic; Reproducibility of Results; Time Factors; Walking;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650234
