A textile-based wearable sensing device designed for monitoring the flexion angle of elbow and knee movements
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Tien-Wei Shyr1, Jing-Wen Shie2, Chang-Han Jiang3
1Department of Fiber and Composite Materials, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, Taichung 40724, Taiwan. twshyr@fcu.edu.tw.
Abstract:
In this work a wearable gesture sensing device consisting of a textile strain sensor, using elastic conductive webbing, was designed for monitoring the flexion angle of elbow and knee movements. The elastic conductive webbing shows a linear response of resistance to the flexion angle. The wearable gesture sensing device was calibrated and then the flexion angle-resistance equation was established using an assembled gesture sensing apparatus with a variable resistor and a protractor. The proposed device successfully monitored the flexion angle during elbow and knee movements.
