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Published on: May 8, 2014
An object oriented implementation of the Yeadon human inertia model
Christopher Dembia1, Jason K Moore2, Mont Hubbard3
1Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Abstract:
We present an open source software implementation of a popular mathematical method developed by M.R. Yeadon for calculating the body and segment inertia parameters of a human body. The software is written in a high level open source language and provides three interfaces for manipulating the data and the model: a Python API, a command-line user interface, and a graphical user interface. Thus the software can fit into various data processing pipelines and requires only simple geometrical measures as input.
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