A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation

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 mon...

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Main Authors: Yi Zhou, Yilin Sun, Yangfangzheng Li, Cheng Shen, Zhiyuan Lou, Xue Min, Rebecca Stewart
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Published: Wiley 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400124
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Yilin Sun
Yangfangzheng Li
Cheng Shen
Zhiyuan Lou
Xue Min
Rebecca Stewart
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Yilin Sun
Yangfangzheng Li
Cheng Shen
Zhiyuan Lou
Xue Min
Rebecca Stewart
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-3cdc08997f0c4c1a9580f4d16a7be6c82025-08-20T01:47:33ZengWileyAdvanced Intelligent Systems2640-45672024-10-01610n/an/a10.1002/aisy.202400124A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture DifferentiationYi Zhou0Yilin Sun1Yangfangzheng Li2Cheng Shen3Zhiyuan Lou4Xue Min5Rebecca Stewart6Dyson School of Design Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2DB UKDepartment of Bioengineering Imperial College London London SW7 2DB UKDyson School of Design Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2DB UKSchool of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering Beihang University Beijing 100191 ChinaDyson School of Design Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2DB UKSchool of Design Jiangnan University Wuxi Jiangsu 214122 ChinaDyson School of Design Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2DB UKFlexible 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.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400124E‐textilesgesture recognitiongraphenehuman joint angle monitoringwearable sensor
spellingShingle Yi Zhou
Yilin Sun
Yangfangzheng Li
Cheng Shen
Zhiyuan Lou
Xue Min
Rebecca Stewart
A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation
Advanced Intelligent Systems
E‐textiles
gesture recognition
graphene
human joint angle monitoring
wearable sensor
title A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation
title_full A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation
title_fullStr A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation
title_full_unstemmed A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation
title_short A Highly Durable and UV‐Resistant Graphene‐Based Knitted Textile Sensing Sleeve for Human Joint Angle Monitoring and Gesture Differentiation
title_sort highly durable and uv resistant graphene based knitted textile sensing sleeve for human joint angle monitoring and gesture differentiation
topic E‐textiles
gesture recognition
graphene
human joint angle monitoring
wearable sensor
url https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400124
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