Authors:
S. Rodrigues
1
;
R. Miguel
1
;
J. Lucas
1
;
C. Gaiolas
1
;
P. Araújo
1
and
N. Reis
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Beira Interior, Portugal
;
2
Biosurfit S.A., Portugal
Keyword(s):
Wearable Technologies, Electromyography, Smart Structures Monitoring, Textile Electrodes, Polypyrrole Conducting Polymer.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Instruments and Devices
;
Biomedical Sensors
;
Devices
;
Health Monitoring Devices
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Physiological Computing Systems
Abstract:
Following the work already done, in particular the “textile arm" by the authors, incorporating metallic filaments in the fabric during the weaving process with the aim of capturing surface electromyography signals, we concluded that there was a need to maximise the area of contact with skin to improve the obtained electrodes signals. The main objective of this work is the development of electrodes embedded into textile materials able to capture electromyography signals, using the polypyrrole conducting polymer, both in coating of electrodes directly into the textile fabric and preparing a conductor yarn with this polymer to obtain a knit structure. This work allowed developing wearable technology textile structures for muscle activity monitoring, through the measurement of electromyography signals, keeping simultaneously comfort and easy-care textile characteristics. The signals obtained with this approach had a good definition compared with commercial electrodes and with the great a
dvantage of this procedure can be applied in industrial production.
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