ABSTRACT
Wireless and remote monitoring of human movements find many applications and is an active research area including in medical robotics; remote activity pattern tracking of the young as well as the elderly; and remote monitoring of the movements of patients with limited mobility or diagnoses of back and neck injuries, for patients suffering from identified problems such as mental illness, coronary-related sicknesses, circadian rhythms, sleep apnea, autism, and arterial diseases [1]. As far as kinematic analyses are concerned, there
CONTENTS
25.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 525 25.1.1 General Review ...................................................................................................... 526 25.1.2 Basic Definitions .................................................................................................... 528 25.1.3 Anatomical Reference System .............................................................................. 529
25.2 Types of Kinematics ..........................................................................................................530 25.2.1 Forward Kinematics ..............................................................................................530 25.2.2 Inverse Kinematics ................................................................................................ 532 25.2.3 Joint Velocity Kinematics ......................................................................................533
