DisPad: Flexible On-Body Displacement of Fabric Sensors for Robust Joint-Motion Tracking

Xiaowei CHEN, Xiao JIANG, Jiawei FANG, Shihui GUO*, Juncong LIN, Minghong LIAO, Guoliang LUO, Hongbo FU

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The last few decades have witnessed an emerging trend of wearable soft sensors; however, there are important signal-processing challenges for soft sensors that still limit their practical deployment. They are error-prone when displaced, resulting in significant deviations from their ideal sensor output. In this work, we propose a novel prototype that integrates an elbow pad with a sparse network of soft sensors. Our prototype is fully bio-compatible, stretchable, and wearable. We develop a learning-based method to predict the elbow orientation angle and achieve an average tracking error of 9.82 degrees for single-user multi-motion experiments. With transfer learning, our method achieves the average tracking errors of 10.98 degrees and 11.81 degrees across different motion types and users, respectively. Our core contributions lie in a solution that realizes robust and stable human joint motion tracking across different device displacements. © 2023 ACM.
Original languageEnglish
Article number5
JournalProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Volume7
Issue number1
Online published28 Mar 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2023

Research Keywords

  • domain adaption
  • fuzzy entropy
  • long short-term memory
  • motion tracking
  • robust signal processing
  • soft sensors
  • textile sensors
  • transfer learning

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