A highly durable and UV‐resistant graphene‐based knitted textile sensing sleeve for human joint angle monitoring and gesture differentiation
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Journal Article
Abstract
Flexible strain sensors based on textiles have attracted extensive attention owing to their light weight, flexibility, and comfort when wearing. However, challenges in integrating textile strain sensors into wearable sensing devices include the need for outstanding sensing performance, long-term monitoring stability, and fast, convenient integration processes to achieve comprehensive monitoring. The scalable fabrication technique presented here addresses these challenges by incorporating customizable graphene-based sensing networks into knitted structures, thus creating sensing sleeves for precise motion detection and differentiation. The performance and real-world application potential of the sensing sleeve are evaluated by its precision in angle estimation and complex joint motion recognition during intra- and intersubject studies. For intra-subject analysis, the sensing sleeve only exhibits a 2.34° angle error in five different knee activities among 20 participants, and the sensing sleeves show up to 94.1% and 96.1% accuracy in the gesture classification of knee and elbow, respectively. For inter-subject analysis, the sensing sleeve demonstrates a 4.21° angle error, and it shows up to 79.9% and 85.5% accuracy in the gesture classification of knee and elbow, respectively. An activity-guided user interface compatible with the sensing sleeves for human motion monitoring in home healthcare applications is presented to illustrate the potential applications.
Date Issued
2024-10-01
Date Acceptance
2024-04-19
Citation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2024, 6 (10)
ISSN
2640-4567
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Intelligent Systems
Volume
6
Issue
10
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© 2024 The Author(s). Advanced Intelligent Systems published by WileyVCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative
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reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400124
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
2400124
Date Publish Online
2024-06-02