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| Scientists are developing smart clothing that can be used to measure movement |
MIT researchers have developed smart clothing that uses special fibers to detect human movement through touch.
Smart fibers can determine whether a dressed person is sitting, walking, or taking certain poses.
Wearable technology is one of the developing fields in the world, as it includes a group of smart watches that can measure various human movements and the state of health clothing in order to monitor the vital functions of a person without touching the human body. Transporter.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence believe that smart clothing could be used for training or rehabilitation.
Innovative materials can also passively monitor health status in supported care facilities with user permission, so semi-autonomous individuals can stay safe and alert employees to user downfall.
MIT researchers have developed a number of prototypes of the wearable materials, including socks, gloves, and bulletproof vests.
Electronic touch devices use a combination of typical textile fibers and a small amount of functional fibers to sense user pressure.
A MIT researcher said it has traditionally been difficult to develop a wearable device that can provide high-resolution data across multiple sensors.
Due to the manufacture of multiple sensor arrays, some do not perform as well and some do not perform like other sensors.
This forced the team to develop a self-correcting mechanism that uses self-monitoring machine learning algorithms to detect and adjust when specific sensors exceed a baseline.
The socks the team designed can predict movement by observing the different sequences of concrete footprints and attaching them to different locations as the user moves from one location to another.
Gloves can detect what they are touching, while smart jackets can detect posture, activity, and even feel the sensation of sitting on the sofa.
The research team believes that smart clothing could be used in robots to provide skin to the robot and enable touch recognition.
The technology is made from affordable materials and is easy to produce in relatively large quantities. A portion of MIT's work is funded by the Toyota Research Institute.