Customer Cases
Xsens motion sensors and full-body measurement systems are used at many universities, institutes and companies all over the world. A small subset is provided below.
Thursday, 26 November 2009Wingsuit flight analysis using the MTi-GA wingsuit may be defined as a wearable suit constructed from a suitable fabric that is flexible, intimately connected to the body, and designed to maximise either the wearer's freefall time or glide ratio. They offer humans the unprecedented opportunity to experience flight in much the... >> Full Story Tuesday, 03 March 2009WearIT@Work ProjectOmnidirectional Pedestrian Navigation for First Responders It might be assumed that dead reckoning approaches to pedestrian navigation could address the needs of first responders, including fire fighters. However, conventional pedestrian dead reckoning approaches with body-mounted motion sensors... >> Full Story Tuesday, 03 March 2009Stroke patientsCharacterising patterns of muscle activation in stroke patients during walkingStroke affects approximately 100,000 people per year in the UK and can result in long term motor dysfunction. The qualities of differing therapies, to improve motor function, are rarely assessed quantitatively as gait... >> Full Story Tuesday, 03 March 2009Extreme conditionsMechanics and energetics of loaded walking on gradients:Management of resources in extreme conditionsProf. Minetti of the Institute for Biophysical and Clinical Research into Human Movement coordinated a team of researchers to carry out an evaluation project entitled "Mechanics and energetic of... >> Full Story Monday, 02 March 2009Racehorse lamenessFast, accurate and robust detection of lameness of racehorses Lameness of racehorses is assessed at an early stage using 3 MT9s along the spine of the horse. At the trotting track of Cabourg (Normandy, France, see photograph) researchers affiliated with the Cirale measure... >> Full Story |