Survey of motion tracking methods based on inertial sensors: A focus on upper limb human motion

A Filippeschi, N Schmitz, M Miezal, G Bleser, E Ruffaldi… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Motion tracking based on commercial inertial measurements units (IMUs) has been widely
studied in the latter years as it is a cost-effective enabling technology for those applications …

Determining anatomical frames via inertial motion capture: A survey of methods

RV Vitali, NC Perkins - Journal of Biomechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the exponential growth in using inertial measurement units (IMUs) for
biomechanical studies, future growth in “inertial motion capture” is stymied by a fundamental …

Upper limb motion tracking with the integration of IMU and Kinect

Y Tian, X Meng, D Tao, D Liu, C Feng - Neurocomputing, 2015 - Elsevier
Upper limb motion tracking attracts attentions from both academia and industry due to its
value in a wide range of applications. Although existing optical-based tracking techniques …

On inertial body tracking in the presence of model calibration errors

M Miezal, B Taetz, G Bleser - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
In inertial body tracking, the human body is commonly represented as a biomechanical
model consisting of rigid segments with known lengths and connecting joints. The model …

Alterations of muscle synergies during voluntary arm reaching movement in subacute stroke survivors at different levels of impairment

B Pan, Y Sun, B **e, Z Huang, J Wu, J Hou… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Motor system uses muscle synergies as a modular organization to simplify the control of
movements. Motor cortical impairments, such as stroke and spinal cord injuries, disrupt the …

Upper body pose estimation using a visual–inertial sensor system with automatic sensor-to-segment calibration

T Li, H Yu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Upper body kinematics is essential for motor function assessment and robot-assisted
rehabilitation training. Wearable sensor systems, such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) …

Motor function assessment of upper limb in stroke patients

B Pan, Z Huang, T **, J Wu, Z Zhang… - Journal of Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Quantitative assessment of motor function is extremely important for poststroke
patients as it can be used to develop personalized treatment strategies. This study aimed to …

A novel biomechanical model-aided IMU/UWB fusion for magnetometer-free lower body motion capture

S Zihajehzadeh, EJ Park - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The available human body inertial motion capture (MoCap) systems are aided by
magnetometers to remove the drift error in yaw angle estimation, which in turn limits their …

IMU/UWB fusion method using a complementary filter and a Kalman filter for hybrid upper limb motion estimation

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Z Li, S Yuan, S Zhu - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Motion capture systems have enormously benefited the research into human–computer
interaction in the aerospace field. Given the high cost and susceptibility to lighting conditions …

Upper limb joint kinematics using wearable magnetic and inertial measurement units: an anatomical calibration procedure based on bony landmark identification

P Picerno, P Caliandro, C Iacovelli, C Simbolotti… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The estimate of a consistent and clinically meaningful joint kinematics using wearable
inertial and magnetic sensors requires a sensor-to-segment coordinate system calibration …