Title from PDF of title page, viewed on March 14, 2013Dissertation advisor: W. Daniel Leon-SalasVitaIncludes bibliographic references (p. 102-[113])Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Computing and Engineering. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012Recent years have seen an increase in research and development efforts towards
wearable and implantable health monitoring systems. Such systems are needed to provide
real-time information about patients to physicians, care-givers, emergency personnel and
relatives. The challenge lies in their designing as they need to satisfy a variety of criteria
and constraints. These include small weight and size, low power consumption, easy to
use, and should be aesthetically pleasing. Advances in semiconductor fabrication have
made commercially available highly integrated systems-on-chip (SOC) which are being
exploited to develop such systems. Use of these SOCs reduces cost and development
time. This dissertation presents system prototypes that can capture human body motion,
measure strain on bones and perform electromyography (EMG). Design of these systems
is centered on ultra-low power microcontrollers and other required circuit components.
We present in detail their design, functionality and compare our results with present solutions.Introduction -- A wearable motion tracker -- Bone strain measuring telemetry units -- Wireless surface electromyography (EMG) sensor -- Conclusion
