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UWB-Aided Inertial Motion Capture for Lower Body 3-D Dynamic Activity and Trajectory Tracking


Abstract:

This paper introduces a novel method for simultaneous 3-D trajectory tracking and lower body motion capture (MoCap) under various dynamic activities such as walking and j...Show More

Abstract:

This paper introduces a novel method for simultaneous 3-D trajectory tracking and lower body motion capture (MoCap) under various dynamic activities such as walking and jumping. The proposed method uses wearable inertial sensors fused with an ultrawideband localization system using a cascaded Kalman filter-based sensor fusion algorithm, which consists of a separate orientation filter cascaded with a position/velocity filter. In addition, to further improve the joint angle tracking accuracy, anatomical constraints are applied to the knee joint. Currently, available self-contained inertial tracking methods are not only drift-prone over time but also their accuracy is degraded under fast movements with unstable ground contact states due to the lack of external references. However, our experimental results, which benchmark the system against a reference camera-based motion tracking system, show that the proposed fusion method can accurately capture the dynamic activities of a subject without drift. The results show that the proposed system can maintain similar accuracies between fast and slow motions in lower body MoCap and 3-D trajectory tracking. The obtained accuracies of the system for 3-D body localization and knee joint angle tracking for fast motions were less than 5 cm and 2.1°, respectively.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement ( Volume: 64, Issue: 12, December 2015)
Page(s): 3577 - 3587
Date of Publication: 10 August 2015

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