Development of real-time and highly accurate wireless motion capture system utilizing soft magnetic core

Highly accurate wireless motion capture system using LC resonant magnetic marker has been developed. The marker consists of soft magnetic core with wound coil and a chip capacitor without battery or electric wires, driven wirelessly by the action of electromagnetic induction. The system realized the position accuracy is less than 1 mm within the space of 150 mm from the pickup coil array. Compared with dc magnetic system, the proposed system is applicable for precision motion-capturing under optically isolated space without magnetic shielding because the system is not influenced very much by the earth field noise.