Analysis of a self-contained motion capture garment for e-textiles
| dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Robert Alan | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Martin, Thomas L. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeecochair | Jones, Mark T. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Athanas, Peter M. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T20:36:06Z | en |
| dc.date.adate | 2011-05-11 | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T20:36:06Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-05-04 | en |
| dc.date.rdate | 2011-05-11 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2011-05-10 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Wearable computers and e-textiles are becoming increasingly widespread in today's society. Motion capture is one of the many potential applications for on-body electronic systems. Previous work has been performed at Virginia Tech's E-textiles Laboratory to design a framework for a self-contained loose fit motion capture system. This system gathers information from sensors distributed throughout the body on a "smart" garment. This thesis presents the hardware and software components of the framework, along with improvements made to it. This thesis also presents an analysis of both the on-body and off-body network communication to determine how many sensors can be supported on the garment at a given time. Finally, this thesis presents a method for determining the accuracy of the smart garment and shows how it compares against a commercially available motion capture system. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Science | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-05102011-095322 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05102011-095322/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32529 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | Lewis_RA_T_2011_IRB.pdf | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | Lewis_RA_T_2011.pdf | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Optical Motion Capture | en |
| dc.subject | Inertial Measurement Units | en |
| dc.subject | E-textiles | en |
| dc.subject | Wearable Computing | en |
| dc.title | Analysis of a self-contained motion capture garment for e-textiles | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |