With the development of science and technology,research based on wearable sensors has gradually gained attention,showing unique advantages such as low power consumption,good portability,low cost,and unlimited use scenarios.One of the important applications is human posture recognition.The process of human posture recognition is mainly divided into human movement information collection,data preprocessing,posture angle solution,and pattern recognition feature extraction and recognition.This article introduces the research process of human gesture recognition technology,summarizes the commonly used sensors,and finally looks forward to the future development of human gesture recognition technology.