%0 Journal Article
%T Design of a Wearable Sensing System for Human Motion Monitoring in Physical Rehabilitation
%A Lara Gonz¨˘lez-Villanueva
%A Stefano Cagnoni
%A Luca Ascari
%J Sensors
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/s130607735
%X 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.
%K human motion monitoring
%K wireless body area networks
%K sensors
%K accelerometers
%K communication protocol
%K data synchronization
%K physical rehabilitation
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/6/7735