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Spine Motion Tracking Shirt

Created a prototype for a wearable device that records the motion of the spine, visualising as it a 3D model. The recording could be played back at a future time and different speeds to allow use in medical diagnoses. It aimed to be a cheaper and less restrictive alternative to traditional motion capture. 

A network of IMUs were read and their data fused in real-time to produce the spine curvature estimation (using C++). Data was transferred serially over bluetooth classic and stored on a connected laptop or phone. The tool Processing was used to script a visualisation in Java. 

Final experiment (MoCap comparison)

Early testing

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