title: Design of a wearable sensing system for human motion monitoring in physical rehabilitation.
abstract: Human motion monitoring and analysis can be an essential part of a wide spectrum of applications, including physical rehabilitation among other potential areas of interest. Creating non-invasive systems for monitoring patients while performing rehabilitation exercises, to provide them with an objective feedback, is one of the current challenges. In this paper we present a wearable multi-sensor system for human motion monitoring, which has been developed for use in rehabilitation. It is composed of a number of small modules that embed high-precision accelerometers and wireless communications to transmit the information related to the body motion to an acquisition device. The results of a set of experiments we made to assess its performance in real-world setups demonstrate its usefulness in human motion acquisition and tracking, as required, for example, in activity recognition, physical/athletic performance evaluation and rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Henesis S.r.l., Viale dei Mille 108, 43125 Parma, Italy. lara.villanueva@henesis.eu
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: González-Villanueva
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cagnoni
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ascari