Paper Info
Title
A Motion Monitor Using Hetero-Core Optical Fiber Sensors Sewed in Sportswear to Trace Trunk Motion
Abstract
In this paper, a cameraless motion monitor has been described by introducing very thin sensor modules into sportswear, in which a single-mode hetero-core optical fiber sensor is fabricated. An elbow joint motion and a trunk motion are monitored by a sportswear on which the hetero-core optical fiber sensor modules are sewed so as to be sensitive to stretch on the wear. In order to get rid of the restriction to the human body, a two-plane model has been proposed in which only two sets of sensors simplify three kinds of motions at the trunk, which are anteflexion, lateral bending, and rotation. Additionally, the real-time monitoring system has been tested when golf swing motion is performed. As a result, it has been indicated that the motion, which consists of a composite of three motions, can be significantly analyzed by means of the two sensors. The developed system is viable to an unconstrained motion capture system intended for a teaching device in sports and rehabilitation fields.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIM.2013.2241534
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
fibre optic sensors,image sensors,sportswear,anteflexion,cameraless motion monitor,elbow joint motion,golf swing motion,human body,lateral bending,real-time monitoring system,rehabilitation fields,single-mode hetero-core optical fiber sensor module,sportswear,teaching device,trunk motion tracing,two-plane model,unconstrained motion capture system,Hetero-core fiber,motion monitor,optical fiber sensors,trunk motion,wearable
Optical fiber,Motion capture,Fiber optic sensor,Monitoring system,Image sensor,Electronic engineering,Bending,Trunk,Mathematics,Swing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
4
0018-9456
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.93
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuya Koyama172.62
Michiko Nishiyama2227.59
Kazuhiro Watanabe3248.31