Monitoring body kinematics and gesture through sensing fabrics

Author

De Rossi, D. ; Lorussi, F. ; Mazzoldi, A. ; Orsini, P. ; Scilingo, E.P.

Author_Institution

Centro Interdipartmentale di Ricerca, Pisa Univ., Italy

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

587

Lastpage

592

Abstract

Monitoring body kinematics and analyzing posture and gesture is an area of major importance in bioengineering, ergonomic, virtual reality and rehabilitation. The authors have developed a minimally intrusive wearable system consisting of a lycra leotard onto which conductive polymer strain sensors are chemically deposited in selected areas. The sensors are capable of recording relative positions and movements of the human trunk and upper limbs by reading the mutual position of kinematically linked body segments

Keywords

conducting polymers; kinematics; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; strain sensors; virtual reality; body kinematics monitoring; conductive polymer strain sensors; gesture analysis; human trunk; kinematically linked body segments; lycra leotard; minimally intrusive wearable system; mutual position reading; posture analysis; relative positions; sensing fabrics; upper limbs; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Chemical and biological sensors; Ergonomics; Fabrics; Kinematics; Polymers; Virtual reality; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, 1st Annual International, Conference On. 2000

Conference_Location

Lyon

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6603-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMB.2000.893853

Filename

893853