This book is dedicated to wearable and autonomous systems, including devices, offers to variety of users, namely, master degree students, researchers and practitioners, An opportunity of a dedicated and a deep approach in order to improve their knowledge in this specific field. The book draws the attention about interesting aspects, as for instance, advanced wearable sensors for enabling applications, solutions for arthritic patients in their limited and conditioned movements, wearable gate analysis, energy harvesting, physiological parameter monitoring, communication, pathology detection , etc..
Author(s): Pepijn van de Ven, Alan Bourke, John Nelson (auth.), Aimé Lay-Ekuakille, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 75
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 408
Tags: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Biomedical Engineering
Front Matter....Pages -
Design and Integration of Fall and Mobility Monitors in Health Monitoring Platforms....Pages 1-29
Smart Nano-systems for Tumour Cellular Diagnoses and Therapies....Pages 31-54
Miniature Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS) Advances towards Portable Autonomous Health Diagnostic Systems....Pages 55-73
A Distributed Telemedical System for Monitoring of the Respiratory Mechanics by Enhanced Interrupter Technique....Pages 75-95
Nonlinear Dynamics, Materials and Integrated Devices for Energy Harvesting in Wearable Sensors....Pages 97-113
Wearable Sensors for Foetal Movement Monitoring in Low Risk Pregnancies....Pages 115-136
An Embedded System for EEG Acquisition and Processing for Brain Computer Interface Applications....Pages 137-154
Micro Systems for the Mechanical Characterization of Isolated Biological Cells: State-of-the-Art....Pages 155-175
On-Body Chemical Sensors for Monitoring Sweat....Pages 177-193
A Wearable Measurement System for the Risk Assessment Due to Physical Agents: Whole Body Mechanical Vibration Injuries....Pages 195-206
A Measurement System Design Technique for Improving Performances and Reliability of Smart and Fault-Tolerant Biomedical Systems....Pages 207-217
A Self-controlled Master-Slave Robot and Its Application for Upper Limb Rehabilitation....Pages 219-235
Advanced Wearable Sensors and Systems Enabling Personal Applications....Pages 237-257
Fall Detection of Patients Using 3-Axis Accelerometer System....Pages 259-275
Unobtrusive and Non-invasive Sensing Solutions for On-Line Physiological Parameters Monitoring....Pages 277-314
The Method of Increasing the Accuracy of Mean Opinion Score Estimation in Subjective Quality Evaluation....Pages 315-329
Wearable Assistive Devices for the Blind....Pages 331-349
Intrabody Communication in Biotelemetry....Pages 351-368
SPINE-HRV: A BSN-Based Toolkit for Heart Rate Variability Analysis in the Time-Domain....Pages 369-389
Measuring Finger Movement in Arthritic Patients Using Wearable Glove Technology....Pages 391-406
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