CAPTURING MOTION           

Measuring human movement has been used in more and more applications in many different fields, such as video games, computer animation, sports gesture analysis (amateur or professional athletes), just as well as in medicine.

Current motion capture systems are complex and highly priced. They are reserved for professional applications.

They require a special laboratory and users that are trained.

The CEA/LETI has been working for several years on a new approach of using micro systems attached to the body or to other objects to be motion tracked.

These micro-systems are sensitive to the magnetic and acceleration fields, or to rotational speed.

The market offering of these sensors has been growing every year.

They are the main products in microelectronics (ST microelectronics, Honeywell, Analogue Devices, Freescale, Aichi Steel Asahi Kasei, OKI, …) but also at more specialised manufacturers  (Tronic’s, Colibris…)

THE MOTION POD

It is the first wireless human motion sensor network.

Each star-shaped node in the network incorporates in one single module magnetic and accelerometric sensors, a low power consumption radio patented at LETI and a battery.

The network can contain up to 16 nodes, the size of a standard wristwatch.

It provides one-day autonomy.

The system is transferred to the spin off Movea.

Developed technologies:

• Miniaturisation

• Architecture System

• RF Protocol

• Signal Processing

• Prototypes

Associated research topics

• Communicating Objects

• Wireless Sensor Network

• Body Area Network

• Motion capture

• Signal Processing

• Technologies for sports and health

Potential application fields

• Intuitive interfaces

• Office automation

• Instrumentation

• 3D Geolocalisation

• Video games

MOVEA

MOVEA, a young start-up, a spin off from CEA -Leti founded in March 2007, designs and commercialises motion micro-sensors such as the Motion Pod, able to transfer movements in real-time.

Wide range of applications in human-machine interface, in particular in interactive arts and video games.

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