Towards Full-Body Motion Capture of Motorcyclists In Situ – A Validation Study and User Report
Wolfgang Kremser, Christina Lena Groß, Sebastian Will, Raphael Pleß, Tiefengrabner Martin (2024): Towards Full-Body Motion Capture of Motorcyclists In Situ – A Validation Study and User Report In: Proceedings of the 15th International Motorcycle Conference
During motorcycle riding the driver’s posture significantly impacts the vehicle dynamics, which makes its study important to design engineers. Current gold standard motion capture systems are unfit for in situ use due to their reliance on multiple fixed cameras. This study investigates the viability of an alternative that uses inertial sensor data called MVN Awinda. We perform concurrent validation with an optical motion capture system on a motorcycle simulator. MVN Awinda recorded some runs in excellent quality, while others had poor data quality, which calls the system’s reliability into question. In runs with good data quality, MVN Awinda achieved a high correlation with the gold standard. We conclude that MVN Awinda is viable for recording general motion patterns during motorcycle driving.
