HUMAN MOTION LOCALIZATION AND INTERACTION BASED ON WEARABLE INERTIAL AND CONTACT SENSORS

The human body kinematics and kinetics with the environment are the crucial features to correctly represent the human-environment interaction. This paper introduces the framework of the system and method to track the spatial human motion interaction with the environment. In this work, the wearable sensors systems are used to measure the kinematic parameters of the body segment and the contact with the environment. Though monitoring the contacts, and capturing the body joint movement, the spatial location of the person can be updated during contacts. Methods on tracking the spatial location, velocity of a person are also discussed. In general, the system and method is able to fully track the spatial behavior, location and velocity of the person during various motions without volume and terrain limitations. The self-contained solution has litter restriction on the subject's movement. It can be applied to many daily activity related applications such as sports and exercises, personal navigation and entertainment etc.