In this paper we
propose a set of techniques for a real-time motion capture
of a human body. The proposed motion capture system is
based on low cost accelerometers, and is capable of identifying
the body configuration by extracting gravity-related terms from the sensor
data. One sensor unit is composed of 3 accelerometers arranged
orthogonally to each other, and is capable of identifying 2
rotating angles of joints with 2 degrees of freedom. A
geometric fusion technique is applied to cope with the uncertainty
of sensor data. A practical calibration technique is also proposed
to handle errors in aligning the sensing axis to the
coordination axis. In the case where motion acceleration is not
negligible compared with gravity acceleration, a compensation technique to extract
gravity acceleration from the sensor data is proposed. Experimental results
not only for individual techniques but also for human motion
capturing with graphics are included.