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A Method for Quantifying Upper Limb Performance in Daily Life Using Accelerometers
Published on: April 21, 2017
Novel Oversampling Technique for Improving Signal-to-Quantization Noise Ratio on Accelerometer-Based Smart Jerk
Jose J Rangel-Magdaleno1, Rene J Romero-Troncoso, Roque A Osornio-Rios
1Facultad de Ingeniería, Campus San Juan del Río, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro / Río Moctezuma 249, Col. San Cayetano, 76807 San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico; E-Mails: jjrangel@hspdigital.org (J.J.R.-M.); raosornio@hspdigital.org (R.A.O.-R.).
Abstract:
Jerk monitoring, defined as the first derivative of acceleration, has become a major issue in computerized numeric controlled (CNC) machines. Several works highlight the necessity of measuring jerk in a reliable way for improving production processes. Nowadays, the computation of jerk is done by finite differences of the acceleration signal, computed at the Nyquist rate, which leads to low signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR) during the estimation. The novelty of this work is the development of a smart sensor for jerk monitoring from a standard accelerometer, which has improved SQNR. The proposal is based on oversampling techniques that give a better estimation of jerk than that produced by a Nyquist-rate differentiator. Simulations and experimental results are presented to show the overall methodology performance.
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