Lower extremity joint angle tracking with wireless ultrasonic sensors during a squat exercise

• Main Authors: Soh, Cheong Boon, Gunawan, Erry, Low, Kay-Soon, Thomas, Rijil, Qi, Yongbin
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107381; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25566
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents an unrestrained measurement system based on a wearable wireless ultrasonic sensor network to track the lower extremity joint and trunk kinematics during a squat exercise with only one ultrasonic sensor attached to the trunk. The system consists of an ultrasound transmitter (mobil...