Low-cost real-time motion capturing system using inertial measurement units

Authors

  • Simona Salicone Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4683-7669
  • Simone Corbellini Department of Electronics and Telecommunication (DET), Politecnico di Torino
  • Harsha Vardhana Jetti Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano
  • Sina Ronaghi Department of Energy (DENG), Politecnico di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21014/acta_imeko.v11i3.1290

Abstract

Human movement modeling - also referred to as motion-capture - is a rapidly expanding field of interest for medical rehabilitation, sports training, and entertainment. Motion capture devices are used to provide a virtual 3-dimensional reconstruction of human physical activities - employing either optical or inertial sensors. Utilizing inertial measurement units and digital signal processing techniques offers a better alternative in terms of portability and immunity to visual perturbations when compared to conventional optical solutions.
In this paper, a cable-free, low-cost motion-capture solution based on inertial measurement units is proposed. The goal of the proposed solution is to apply motion capture to the fields that, because of cost problems, did not take enough benefit of such technology. An example, for instance, could be a gym. According to this goal, the necessary requirement for the proposed system is to be low-cost. Therefore, all the considerations and all the solutions provided in this work have been done according to this main requirement.

Author Biography

Simona Salicone, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano

Simona Salicone is an Associate Professor of electrical and electronic measurements at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano.

Her principal research interests are concerned with the analysis of advanced mathematical methods for uncertainty representation and estimation. Her research activity is reflected in the over 100 papers published in international and national scientific journals, in the proceedings of national and international conferences in the field of instrumentation and measurements, and in two monographs, edited by Springer: “Measurement Uncertainty. An approach via the mathematical theory of evidence” (2007) and “Measuring Uncertainty within the Theory of Evidence” (2018).

In 2004 she has received, by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, in recognition of contributions made to measurement uncertainty theory, the 2004 Outstanding Young Engineer Award. In 2007, Simona Salicone is elected, by the Officers and Board of Directors of the IEEE, to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. In years 2013 to 2017, Simona Salicone has been part of the Academic Board of the PhD in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2014 until the end of 2016, she has been part of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, as the responsible of the column “Future Trends in Instrumentation & Measurements”. Since January 2016 until the end of 2017, Simona Salicone has been the Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine. In 2016 Simona Salicone has received, in appreciation of outstanding service to IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, the recognition as one of the Transactions Outstanding Reviewers of 2015, by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. Simona Salicone is the winner of the 2016 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Faculty Course Development Award.

In 2019, her monograph “Measuring Uncertainty within the Theory of Evidence” was among the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in its respective eBook Collection. In 2020, Simona Salicone has been recognized as a Top 70 Most Published Author of All Time by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society – Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement.

Since 2019, Simona is part of the Selection Committee of the IEEE Faculty Course Development Award. Since 2021, she has been part of the Editorial Board of the MDPI Metrology journal.

 

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Published

2022-09-28

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2022)

Section

Research Papers

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