11/3/2009 - Human motion measurement

Xsens Technologies is a leading supplier of products for measurement of motion, orientation and position, based upon miniature MEMS inertial sensor technology.

 Xsens’ products are small, low-cost and highly accurate 3D motion measurement units. These specific qualities enable applications such as control, stabilization and navigation of small (unmanned) vehicles, and totally new applications such as inertial full-body human motion capturing (for camera-less character animation, VR training and simulation, sports and health).

 Xsens is specialized in state-of-the-art miniature MEMS inertial sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope), aiding technologies (GPS/GNSS, vision, barometer, magnetic field sensors) and proprietary ‘sensor fusion’ software algorithms.

Xsens Technologies is based in Enschede, The Netherlands.project
Control Architecture for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

The Underwater Robotics Research Lab of the Computer Vision and Robotics team focuses its work on the design and development of the technologies needed to set-up Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with application to marine science, archeology and industrial underwater inspection (Dams, harbours, pipes,...). The Underwater Robotic Intelligent System (URIS) is one of the last prototypes developed by VICOROB. It is equipped with a network of two PC104 computers interfaced with several sensors. Due to the small dimensions of URIS (sphere of 35 [cm] diameter) most of the sensors commonly used for AUVs doesn’t fit onboard. For this reason, URIS sensing subsystem is composed by two small cameras, two sonar altimeters, a depth sensor and a miniature attitude and heading reference unit from Xsens Technologies. The MTi unit is used to determine the attitude of URIS in order to stabilize it. The MTi is fast; it takes only 6 to 7 ms from the physical event until the reception of the orientation at the processor.

A Team of students of the Universitat de Girona competes in the Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge - Europe (SAUC-E), to be held in London