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In this paper, we introduce a dynamic weight particle swarm optimization (DPSO) algorithm with crossover factor based on the joint constraint to obtain the dynamic alignment vectors of I2S, and use them to perform the quaternion-based 3-DOF knee angle estimation algorithm. The optimization algorithm and the joint angle estimation algorithm were evaluated by comparing with the optical motion capture system. The range of 3-DOF knee angle root mean square errors (RMSEs) is 1.6\u00b0\u20135.9\u00b0 during different motions. Furthermore, we also set up experiments of human walking (3 km\/h), jogging (6 km\/h) and ordinary running (9 km\/h) to investigate the effects of dynamic I2S misalignment errors on 3-DOF knee angle estimation during different motions by artificially adding errors to I2S alignment parameters. The results showed differences in the effects of I2S misalignment errors on the estimation of knee abduction, internal rotation and flexion, which indicate the differences in knee joint kinematics among different motions. The IMU to thigh misalignment error has the greatest effect on the estimation of knee internal rotation. The effect of IMU to thigh misalignment error on the estimation of knee abduction angle becomes smaller and then larger during the two processes of switching from walking to jogging and then speeding up to ordinary running. The effect of IMU to shank misalignment error on the estimation of knee flexion angle is numerically the largest, while the standard deviation (SD) is the smallest. 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