PAMS: A wearable physical activity monitoring system for continuous motion capture in free-living environments
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-1-2011
Abstract
Long term continuously monitoring of human physical activities in free living environments provides valuable information for a wide range of applications. This paper presents the design and implementation of a Physical Activity Monitoring System (PAMS) that can capture human motions which potentially provide many new types of human health assessment and intervention mechanisms for obesity management, rehabilitation, assisted living and human robot interaction. A low power design is applied for PAMS in the hardware/middleware design and the signal processing/filtering algorithms to reduce the number of packets transmitted to the gateway. A full 6-DoF Inertial Measurement Unit is integrated in PAMS to achieve highly reliable inertial data. With highly reliable inertial data, PAMS is designed for a spectrum of applications in healthcare monitoring, electronic entertainment and biokinetics researches. Case studies of real-time human motion tracking via PAMS are demonstrated and performances are evaluated. © 2010 ACM.
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2010
Recommended Citation
Hu, S.,
Chen, X.,
&
Tan, J.
(2011).
PAMS: A wearable physical activity monitoring system for continuous motion capture in free-living environments.
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2010, 233-239.
http://doi.org/10.1145/2221924.2221968
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