A textile-based wearable sensing device designed for monitoring the flexion angle of elbow and knee movements

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 4050-4059

  Shyr, Tien Wei ^a   Shie, Jing Wen ^b   Jiang, Chang Han ^a   Li, Jung Jen ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elastic conductive webbing; Electronic textiles; Flexion angle monitor; Textile strain sensor; Wearable gesture sensing device

Indexed keywords

SENSORS; TEXTILES;

ELASTIC CONDUCTIVE WEBBING; ELECTRONIC TEXTILES; GESTURE SENSING; LINEAR RESPONSE; STRAIN SENSORS; VARIABLE RESISTORS; WEARABLE GESTURE-SENSING DEVICE; WEARABLE SENSING;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 84896839330     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140304050     Document Type: Article

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