Login to EngCom

Syndicate



Save to del.ico.us Save This Page

Interesting engineering news and general interest to get you through the week.

Your Ad Here

Motion capture on the cheap

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan  

Up until recently motion capture for people has required expensive systems being used in controlled environments.  This is soon to change thanks to Rolf Adelsperger and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,  researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.  They are creating a new system that makes use of a combination of cheap accelerometers and gyroscopes and ultrasound.  The system still has a few glitches but overall is very accurate,  and as the products they are using improve they hope to alleviate those problems.

....click the links to read more
Start a conversation
Add NewSearchRSS
Join the conversation
Name:
Title:
UBBCode:
[b] [i] [u] [url] [quote] [code] [img] 
 
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
Security Image

Powered by JoomlaCommentCopyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved.Homepage: http://cavo.co.nr/

Thursday 29 November, 2007 10:03 AM
 
< Prev   Next >
Your Ad Here

Midweek Trivia

Get this weeks Midweek Trivia!!


(1st October) 

and challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia. 

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson