A tool to facilitate the development of Mocap applications using IMUs - Design and Prototyping

Abstract: This paper presents to find a solution, by designing a tool that could be used as a framework for the development of Motion Capture applications (Mocap) which is using with inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). Our main objective is how to find a tool that would be extremely fascinated and improved the accessibility to the development of Motion Capture applications. the methodology we applied for the literature review and we described and presented the factors about relevance of the technology and a different area of use and application, as well as to discover characteristics that need to be considered for the creation of a tool that could be utilized in the development of Mocap Applications. The second part of our thesis is certainly based on the design science research methodology; an artifact is planned through a designing a tool and prototype. We created a framework known as IMOTRAF which stands for Inertial Motion Tracking Framework that targeted more platforms than aREST framework, is to facilitate The Mocap application using by IMUs. The IMOTRAF framework should only focus in MCU/IMU platform. Throughout the collection data for the empirical analysis, we have learnt two protocols commonly used in wireless communication such as MQTT and Firmata. In this thesis we have implemented and tested to a new artifact that is made possible to connect many devices simultaneously via WIFI using by Firmata protocol.