Smart sensor tights : Movement tracking of the lower limbs in football

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This article presents a novel smart sensor garment with integrated miniaturized inertial measurements units (IMUs) that can be used to monitor lower body kinematics during daily training activities, without the need of extensive technical assistance throughout the measurements. The smart sensor tights enclose five ultra-light sensor modules that measure linear accelerations, angular velocities, and the earth magnetic field in three directions. The modules are located at the pelvis, thighs, and shanks. The garment enables continuous measurement in the field at high sample rates (250 Hz) and the sensors have a large measurement range (32 g, 4,000°/s). They are read out by a central processing unit through an SPI bus, and connected to a centralized battery in the waistband. A fully functioning prototype was built to perform validation studies in a lab setting and in a field setting. In the lab validation study, the IMU data (converted to limb orientation data) were compared with the kinematic data of an optoelectronic measurement system and good validity (CMCs >0.8) was shown. In the field tests, participants experienced the tights as comfortable to wear and they did not feel restricted in their movements. These results show the potential of using the smart sensor tights on a regular base to derive lower limb kinematics in the field.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2

Enthalten in:

Wearable technologies - 2(2021) vom: 30., Seite e17

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Steijlen, Annemarijn [VerfasserIn]
Burgers, Bastiaan [VerfasserIn]
Wilmes, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Bastemeijer, Jeroen [VerfasserIn]
Bastiaansen, Bram [VerfasserIn]
French, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Bossche, Andre [VerfasserIn]
Jansen, Kaspar [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Football
Inertial measurement units
Journal Article
Movement tracking
Wearable sensors

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Date Revised 16.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/wtc.2021.16

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369763157