Wearable stretch sensors for human movement monitoring and fall detection in ergonomics

H Chander, RF Burch, P Talegaonkar… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wearable sensors are beneficial for continuous health monitoring, movement analysis,
rehabilitation, evaluation of human performance, and for fall detection. Wearable stretch …

Fatigue testing of wearable sensing technologies: Issues and opportunities

AK Persons, JE Ball, C Freeman, DM Macias… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Standards for the fatigue testing of wearable sensing technologies are lacking. The majority
of published fatigue tests for wearable sensors are performed on proof-of-concept stretch …

Electromechanical fatigue properties of dielectric elastomer capacitive sensors based on plantarflexion of the human ankle joint

AK Persons, C Middleton, E Parker, JE Ball… - ECS Sensors …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Wearable stretch sensors have potential applications across many fields including medicine
and sports, but the accuracy of the data produced by the sensors over repeated uses is …

Closing the wearable gap—Part VI: Human gait recognition using deep learning methodologies

S Davarzani, D Saucier, P Peranich, W Carroll… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
A novel wearable solution using soft robotic sensors (SRS) has been investigated to model
foot-ankle kinematics during gait cycles. The capacitance of SRS related to foot-ankle basic …

Closing the wearable gap—Part V: Development of a pressure-sensitive sock utilizing soft sensors

T Luczak, RF Burch V, BK Smith, DW Carruth… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of compressible soft robotic sensors (C-
SRS) in determining plantar pressure to infer vertical and shear forces in wearable …

Closing the Wearable Gap: Foot–ankle kinematic modeling via deep learning models based on a smart sock wearable

S Davarzani, D Saucier, P Talegaonkar… - Wearable …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The development of wearable technology, which enables motion tracking analysis for
human movement outside the laboratory, can improve awareness of personal health and …

Closing the wearable gap-part VII: a retrospective of stretch sensor tool kit development for benchmark testing

P Talegaonkar, D Saucier, W Carroll, P Peranich… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a retrospective of the benchmark testing methodologies developed and
accumulated into the stretch sensor tool kit (SSTK) by the research team during the Closing …

Closing the wearable gap–part IX: validation of an improved ankle motion capture wearable

W Carroll, A Turner, P Talegaonkar, E Parker… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotic sensors, a class of pliable, embeddable sensors, are well-suited for applications
in wearable technology because of their ease of integration with common clothing articles …

Gait analysis accuracy difference with different dimensions of flexible capacitance sensors

DW Nam, B Ahn - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stroke causes neurological pathologies, including gait pathologies, which are diagnosed by
gait analysis. However, existing gait analysis devices are difficult to use in situ or are …

Comparison of the capacitance of a cyclically fatigued stretch sensor to a non-fatigued stretch sensor when performing static and dynamic foot-ankle motions

AK Persons, C Middleton, E Parker, W Carroll, A Turner… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Motion capture is the current gold standard for assessing movement of the human body, but
laboratory settings do not always mimic the natural terrains and movements encountered by …