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Postural Stability Analysis with Inertial Measurement Units in Alzheimer's Disease [PDF]
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2014 Background: The cause of frequent falls in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is still not well understood. Nevertheless, balance control and sensory organization are known to be critical for moving safely and adapting to the environment. Methods: We
Miguel F. Gago +6 more
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Estimating Movement Smoothness From Inertial Measurement Units [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are increasingly used to estimate movement quality and quantity to the infer the nature of motor behavior. The current literature contains several attempts to estimate movement smoothness using data from IMUs, many of ...
Alejandro Melendez-Calderon +6 more
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Localization of Biobotic Insects Using Low-Cost Inertial Measurement Units [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Disaster robotics is a growing field that is concerned with the design and development of robots for disaster response and disaster recovery. These robots assist first responders by performing tasks that are impractical or impossible for humans ...
Jeremy Cole +2 more
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Measurement of respiratory rate with inertial measurement units [PDF]
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2020 Demographic changes and increasing air pollution entail that monitoring of respiratory parameters is in the focus of research. In this study, two customary inertial measurement units (IMUs) are used to measure the breathing rate by using quaternions. One
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Clinicians' perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been increasingly popular in rehabilitation research. However, despite their accessibility and potential advantages, their uptake and acceptance by health professionals remain a big challenge.
François Routhier +9 more
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Template-Based Step Detection with Inertial Measurement Units [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 This article presents a method for step detection from accelerometer and gyrometer signals recorded with Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). The principle of our step detection algorithm is to recognize the start and end times of the steps in the signal ...
Laurent Oudre +7 more
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Modelling and development of wireless inertial measurement units [PDF]
, 2014 University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.This thesis presents the design and test of a wireless sensor mounted inertial navigation system.
Yu, ZY
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Effect of IMU location on estimation of vertical ground reaction force during jumping
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Introduction: Several investigations have examined utilizing inertial measurement units (IMU) to estimate ground reaction force (GRF) during exercise. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of inertial measurement units location on
Jordan A. Kerns +4 more
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ANALYSIS OF MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE APPLICATIONS [PDF]
Scientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport, 2022 Typically, an inertial navigation system (INS) is used to determine the position, speed, and orientation of an object moving relative to the earth's surface. The navigation information (position, speed and orientation) of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Aftandil MAMMADOV
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Sensors, 2021 There are several algorithms that use the 3D acceleration and/or rotational velocity vectors from IMU sensors to identify gait events (i.e., toe-off and heel-strike).
Wesley Niswander, Kimberly Kontson
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