An object oriented implementation of the Yeadon human inertia model.
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SUBMITTER: Dembia C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4329601 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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An object oriented implementation of the Yeadon human inertia model.
Dembia Christopher C Moore Jason K JK Hubbard Mont M
F1000Research 20140917
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 ...[more]
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