Kinetics in Xsens: First look

Until now, you could study natural movement or measure complete kinetics, but not both: full forces and joint moments stayed in the lab, and what came out of the lab was partial.

The addition of the kinetics engine into Xsens ends that trade-off. It gives you 3-axis ground reaction forces, center of pressure and joint moments from Xsens IMU data alone, anywhere the movement happens, alongside the full-body kinematics you already know.

In this live session, Martina Ravizza and Domitille Princelle show what Xsens Kinetics does, how it works and what the first validation results tell us, with plenty of time for your questions.

What you will see:

• Kinetics in action: forces and joint moments from walking, running, jumping and landing, live and reprocesses.

• How it works: a physics-based model built on Newton’s laws, not a model trained on someone else’s data

• The validation: how the estimates compare with force plates, including where it performs best and where its limits are.

• What it means for your research: setup, workflow, export and reprocessing your existing recordings