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

Sensors (Basel). 2014 Feb 26;14(3):4050-9. doi: 10.3390/s140304050.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Calibration
  • Elasticity
  • Elbow Joint / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Knee Joint / physiology*
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation
  • Movement / physiology*
  • Range of Motion, Articular / physiology*
  • Telemetry / instrumentation*
  • Textiles*