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Wireless Motion Capture System for Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Ourania Tsilomitrou    
Konstantinos Gkountas    
Nikolaos Evangeliou and Evangelos Dermatas    

Resumen

This work is devoted to the presentation of a Wireless Sensor System implementation for upper limb rehabilitation to function as a complementary system for a patient?s progress supervision during rehabilitation exercises. A cost effective motion capture sensor node composed by a 9 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) is mounted on the patient?s upper limb segments and sends wirelessly the corresponding measured signals to a base station. The sensor orientation and the upper limb individual segments movement in 3-Dimensional (3D) space are derived by processing the sensors? raw data. For the latter purpose, a biomechanical model which resembles that of a kinematic model of a robotic arm based on the Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) configuration is used to approximate in real time the upper limb movements. The joint angles of the upper limb model are estimated from the extracted sensor node?s orientation angles. The experimental results of a human performing common rehabilitation exercises using the proposed motion capture sensor node are compared with the ones using an off-the-shelf sensor. This comparison results to very low error rates with the root mean square error (RMSE) being about 0.02" role="presentation" style="position: relative;">0.020.02 0.02 m.

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