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Distinguishing Sitting and Standing Activities Using a Wearable Barometric Pressure Monitor

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Julien Chardonnens, Fabien Massé, Alan Kevin Bourke

Recent advancements in wearable inertial sensor technology have enabled extensive research into activity classification. However, the distinction between the sitting and standing activities using trunk-worn wearable monitoring systems remains challenging, ...

2013

Development of a standard fall data format for signals from body-worn sensors The FARSEEING consensus

Kamiar Aminian

Objective measurement of real-world fall events by using body-worn sensor devices can improve the understanding of falls in older people and enable new technology to prevent, predict, and automatically recognize falls. However, these events are rare and he ...

Springer Heidelberg2013

Inertial measurement unit and biomechanical analysis of swimming: an update

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Farzin Dadashi

The biomechanical analysis of swimming always faced impeding factors of measurement in the aquatic environment. Our current knowledge of swimming locomotion is very much owing to employing video cameras to capture the body kinematics. Nevertheless, the rec ...

2013

Gaussian process framework for pervasive estimation of swimming velocity with a body-worn IMU

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Farzin Dadashi

Presented is an accurate swimming velocity estimation method using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) by employing a simple biomechanical constraint of motion along with Gaussian process regression to deal with sensor inherent errors. Experimental validati ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2013

Front-Crawl Instantaneous Velocity Estimation Using a Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Farzin Dadashi, Florent Crettenand

Monitoring the performance is a crucial task for elite sports during both training and competition. Velocity is the key parameter of performance in swimming, but swimming performance evaluation remains immature due to the complexities of measurements in wa ...

Mdpi Ag2012

A Framework for Inertial Sensor Calibration Using Complex Stochastic Error Models

Jan Skaloud, Stéphane Guerrier, Yannick Stebler

Modeling and estimation of gyroscope and accelerometer errors is generally a very challenging task, especially for low-cost inertial MEMS sensors whose systematic errors have complex spectral structures. Consequently, identifying correct error-state parame ...

Ieee2012

System and method for 3d gait assessment

Kamiar Aminian, Benoît Mariani

The invention relates to a system and a method for assessment of walking and running gait in human. The method is preferably based on the fusion of a portable device featuring inertial sensors and several new dedicated signal processing algorithms: the det ...

2012

Conjugate momentum estimate using non-linear dynamic model of the sit-to-stand correlates well with accelerometric surface data

Kamiar Aminian, Raluca Lidia Ganea

The purpose of this study was the development of a non-linear double inverted constrained pendulum model for the analysis of the movement of sit-to-stand (STS) transition. Ten able-bodied subjects perform five trials in their natural speed. Kinematics, kin ...

2011

Front-Crawl Propulsive Phase Detection Using Inertial Sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Farzin Dadashi, Florent Crettenand

Front crawl is an alternating swimming stroke technique in which different phases of arm movement induce changes in acceleration of limbs and body. This study proposes a new approach to use inertial body worn sensors to estimate main temporal phases of fro ...

2011

Analysis of inter-segment coordination during the take-off of ski jumping

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Julien Chardonnens

In ski jumping, take-off (TO) is considered as the most important phase. While spatio-temporal features have been identified during this phase, inter-segment coordination has never been investigated. This study proposed a new method using body worn inertia ...

2011

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