An enormous amount of research has been conducted in the area of positioning systems
and thus it calls for a detailed literature review of recent localization systems. This article …

Recently, with the development of artificial intelligence technologies and the popularity of
mobile devices, walking detection and step counting have gained much attention since they …

Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) is a promising complementary technique to balance the
requirements on both accuracy and costs in outdoor and indoor positioning systems. In this …

Monitoring and tracking people at home usually requires high cost hardware installations,
which implies they are not affordable in many situations. This study/paper proposes a …

Background: Pedometers are considered desirable devices for monitoring physical activity.
Two population groups of interest include patients having undergone surgery in the lower …

The ambulatory monitoring of human movement can provide valuable information regarding
the degree of functional ability and general level of activity of individuals. Since walking is a …

One of the key technologies that lays behind the human–machine interaction and human
motion diagnosis is the limbs motion tracking. To make the limbs tracking efficient, it must be …

Quantifying gait parameters and ambulatory monitoring of changes in these parameters
have become increasingly important in epidemiological and clinical studies. Using high …

Inertial measurement units are commonly used to estimate the orientation of sections of
sections of human body in inertial navigation systems. Most of the algorithms used for …

With usage of big data and development of advanced technology, smart wearable devices
have come to market with multifunction. The wearables include smart watches, smart bands …