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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"wearable system"”.
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A high speed wearable system for body coupled communication
… transmission. This thesis presents a 3 Mbps wearable receiver and transmitter system for BCC that was developed from commercially available electrical components and a custom PCB. Both receiver and transmitter are on the same PCB. They share a digital FPGA system, but have separate analog …
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Activity Recognition Processing in a Self-Contained Wearable System
… provide an effective platform to contain wearable computing elements, especially components geared towards the application of activity recognition. An activity recogni tion system built into a wearable textile substrate can be utilized in a variety of areas including health monitoring, …
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Design and Evaluation of a Wearable System for Facial Privacy
… that provide ubiquitous sensor data such as wearables, mobile phones, and Internet-connected devices of the sort, privacy challenges are becoming even more significant. One major challenge that requires more focus is bystanders' privacy, as there are too few solutions that solve the issue. Of …
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Wearables as witness : sensing and categorizing violent forces in a wearable system
… This project examines the intimate position wearable technologies have with our bodies and explores the design of a wearable computer system that could record and document physical forces to the body in an effort to quantify the physical abuse. The system could potentially assist the victims …
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Hardware Design of a Wearable System for Gesture-Based Teleoperation of a Robotic Manipulator
… these methods of evaluation and the final system design and testing of a wearable system for gesture-based control of a robotic manipulator, including a discussion of sensor placement to obtain improved results. The final system presented requires improvements and continued research to …
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A wearable system that learns a kinematic model and finds structure in everyday manipulation by using absolute orientation sensors and a camera
This thesis presents Duo, the first wearable system to autonomously learn a kinematic model of the wearer via body-mounted absolute orientation sensors and a head-mounted camera. With Duo, we demonstrate the significant benefits of endowing a wearable system with the ability to sense the kinematic …
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Wearable-assisted social interaction as assistive technology for the blind
This work presents an end-to-end wearable system designed to learn and assist its (potentially blind) wearers with daily social interactions. In particular, it visually identifies nearby acquaintances and provides timely, discreet notifications of their presence to the wearer. Offline, the system …
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Spatial aspects of mobile ad hoc collaboration
… The principle is demonstrated in a prototype wearable system for synchronous voice messaging.
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AUFLIP : teaching front flips with auditory feedback towards a system for learning advanced movement
AUFLIP describes an auditory feedback system approach for learning advanced movements, informed and motivated by established methods of implicit motor learning by analogy, our physiological constraints, and the state of the art in augmented motor learning by feedback. AUFLIP presents and validates …
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Activity Recognition using Singular Value Decomposition
A wearable device that accurately records a user's daily activities is of substantial value. It can be used to enhance medical monitoring by maintaining a diary that lists what a person was doing and for how long. The design of a wearable system to record context such as activity recognition is …
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Wearable sensor systems to study the physiological and behavioral manifestation of cigarette smoking in free-living
… conditions. This dissertation proposes new wearable sensor systems and related signal/image processing and pattern recognition methods for the objective, accurate and automatic detection of cigarette smoking with minimal effort from the person being observed. Main accomplishments of this …
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Large Scale Acquisition of Complex Environments by Data Fusion from Mobile Visual and Depth Sensors
… and application of a state-of-the-art wearable system integrating laser and visual scanning technology. This innovative mobile mapping system (MMS) is designed to capture complex man-made structures in diverse settings, ranging from indoor spaces to challenging outdoor environments and …
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The Development Of A Dismounted Infantry Embedded Trainer With An Intelligent Tutor System
The dismounted infantry system is a man wearable system with intelligent tutoring tool used to assess training. The tasks used to assess training for the intelligent tutoring were: (1) move as a member of a fireteam, (2) enter and clear a room, and (3) report battlefield information. The soldier …
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Control of a pneumatically actuated joint for wearable supernumerary robotic limbs application
… on the integration of lightweight, pneumatic systems for prismatic joint actuation, and the various control schemes studied. This joint serves as the leg of the robot, and extends from the hip of the wearer to contact the ground. The design consists of a two-way pneumatic cylinder inside a …
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Accurate On-Body Distance Estimation using BLE RSSI and IMU Sensor Fusion
… these limitations. We developed a custom wearable system using ESP32 microcontrollers and BNO085 IMUs and conducted a study with 6 human participants performing a series of defined arm movements. A high-precision XSens motion capture suit provided ground-truth data. This data was used to …
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Multi-sensor signal processing methods for home monitoring of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases
… and vessels, was analyzed using a variety of wearable and unobtrusive sensors. Algorithms were developed to assess the relationship of BCG with existing hemodynamic measurement modalities to increase the breadth of clinical parameters estimated from BCG. Data driven algorithms were designed …
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Ultra-wideband Radar Detection of Breathing Rate: A Comparative Evaluation
… worn around the chest or stomach, but these systems limit user movement. Contactless systems provide a unique design that allows free user movement by eliminating all direct contact with the user. Additionally, these systems have the potential to support full health monitoring in a Smart …
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A shoe-integrated sensor system for wireless gait analysis and real-time therapeutic feedback
… using highly accurate, if cumbersome, kinematic systems, or a qualitative analysis with a physician or physical therapist making visual observations. There is a need for a low cost device that falls in between these two methods, and can provide quantitative and repeatable results. In addition, …
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System (for) Tracking Equilibrium and Determining Incline (STEADI)
… was to design and implement a smartphone-based wearable system to detect fall events in real time. It has the acronym STEADI. Rather than have expensive customised hardware STEADI was implemented in a cost effective manner using a generic mobile computing device. In order to detect the fall …
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HCI gesture tracking using wearable passive tags
In this thesis. a wearable system is developed to track hand gestures with passive RFID sensor tags. This system was composed of an ultra-high frequency reader and small, passive, finger-worn tags powered by scavenged RFID energy equipped with a variety of sensors that could be used to detect …
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