Kinematic Analysis of Human Movement (Focus) by Laurence Cheze PDF

By Laurence Cheze

ISBN-10: 1848216106

ISBN-13: 9781848216105

After a short survey of the well-known pioneers of human circulate research and the particular wishes in several domain names, this e-book provides the most forms of structures available to buy (with the professionals and cons), after which information the main familiar: the optoelectronic structures utilizing passive markers. The theoretical heritage for joint kinematics calculation is defined, specifying the overseas standardization for parameters reviews. One bankruptcy is devoted to size blunders and their administration, through a number of functions, commonly within the scientific fields

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Thus, depending on the intended application, we can 36 Kinematic Analysis of Human Movement assume for example in the case of the upper limbs, that the thorax, arm, forearm and hand are rigid bodies articulated by the shoulder, elbow and wrist respectively, if an overall analysis of the gesture is desired, or analyze in more detail the different bone segments and joints of the shoulder or hand, in other cases. By definition, a body segment will therefore be considered as a set of material points rigidly linked to one another, that is to say that the distances between these points are constant irrespective of the movement of the segment.

Then, to refine the estimate of the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the cameras from the static calibration, dynamic calibration is carried out by scanning the whole volume with a rod with markers attached whose distances are known. The camera parameters are recalculated to improve their accuracy, and hence the calculation accuracy of the spatial coordinates of markers throughout the whole work volume. After calibration, the cameras must not be touched. In fact, due to the real-time reconstruction of the trajectories, the operator quickly realizes if one camera is accidentally struck during the experiment, since the parameters used to calculate the position of the markers no longer correspond to images provided by this camera and the system is no longer able to reconstruct the trajectories of the markers in real time.

If older systems relied on static calibration via the direct linear transform (DLT) method developed by Abdel-Aziz and Karara [ABD 71] or one of their variants [HAT 88], requiring a reference object on which coordinates with a minimum of six control points to be placed in the center of the study volume, the current systems use a two-step calibration. First, a static calibration uses a fairly simple reference object (square) on which the coordinates in the center of the four markers are known, placed in the center of the study volume.

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