Motion Jacket

Technology Name and one line description
Robust Working Jacket for Upper Body Motion Capturing

Technology Type
Hardware Devices and Wearable Systems

Short Description
Based on 7 distributed MTx modules from XSens the Motion Jacket is able to capture the upper body motion, e.g. of workers during maintenance work. 5 MTx modules are integrated into the jacket aligned with lower arms, upper arms and the torso. For the integration, a layered approach with inner sleeves has been used. In addtition, two modules are attached to gloves to capture the hand motion.

Use in wearIT@work Project
The Motion Jacket has been used in field experiments at Skoda within the checkpoint scenario for data acquisition.

White paper
• Fusion of String-Matched Templates for Continuous Activity Recognition, Thomas Stiefmeier, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster, 11th IEEE International Sympo-sium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Boston, USA, October 11-13, 2007 (accepted for publication)