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 …

Human activity recognition based on two-channel residual–GRU–ECA module with two types of sensors

X Wang, J Shang - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the thriving development of sensor technology and pervasive computing, sensor-based
human activity recognition (HAR) has become more and more widely used in healthcare …

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 …

Validity and reliability of an inertial device for measuring dynamic weight-bearing ankle dorsiflexion

JM Oliva-Lozano, I Martín-Fuentes, JM Muyor - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
A decrease in ankle dorsiflexion causes changes in biomechanics, and different instruments
have been used for ankle dorsiflexion testing under static conditions. Consequently, the …

Closing the wearable gap—Part IV: 3D motion capture cameras versus soft robotic sensors comparison of gait movement assessment

D Saucier, S Davarzani, A Turner, T Luczak, P Nguyen… - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to use 3D motion capture and stretchable soft robotic sensors
(SRS) to collect foot-ankle movement on participants performing walking gait cycles on flat …

In silico finite element analysis of the foot ankle complex biomechanics: a literature review

PK Phan, ATN Vo… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Computational approaches, especially finite element analysis (FEA), have been rapidly
growing in both academia and industry during the last few decades. FEA serves as a …

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 …