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A Simple, Inexpensive, Wearable Glove with Hybrid Resistive-Pressure Sensors for Computational Sensing, Proprioception, and Task Identification

Hughes, Josie  
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Spielberg, Andrew
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Chounlakone, Mark
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2020
Advanced Intelligent Systems

Wearable devices have many applications ranging from health analytics to virtual and mixed reality interaction, to industrial training. For wearable devices to be practical, they must be responsive, deformable to fit the wearer, and robust to the user's range of motion. Signals produced by the wearable must also be informative enough to infer the precise physical state or activity of the user. Herein, a fully soft, wearable glove is developed, which is capable of real-time hand pose reconstruction, environment sensing, and task classification. The design is easy to fabricate using low cost, commercial off-the-shelf items in a manner that is amenable to automated manufacturing. To realize such capabilities, resisitive and fluidic sensing technologies with machine learning neural architectures are merged. The glove is formed from a conductive knit which is strain sensitive, providing information through a network of resistance measurements. Fluidic sensing captured via pressure changes in fibrous sewn-in flexible tubes, measuring interactions with the environment. The system can reconstruct user hand pose and identify sensory inputs such as holding force, object temperature, conductability, material stiffness, and user heart rate, all with high accuracy. The ability to identify complex environmentally dependent tasks, including held object identification and handwriting recognition is demonstrated.

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DOI
10.1002/aisy.202000002
Author(s)
Hughes, Josie  
Spielberg, Andrew
Chounlakone, Mark
Chang, Gloria
Matusik, Wojciech
Rus, Daniela
Date Issued

2020

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Published in
Advanced Intelligent Systems
Volume

2

Issue

6

Article Number

2000002

Subjects

Automation & Control Systems

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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Robotics

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machine learning

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multimodal sensing

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soft sensing

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task recognition

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wearable computing

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wearable gloves

Note

J.H., A.S., and M.C. contributed equally to this work. Support from NSF grant no. EFRI-1830901, and IARPA grant no. 2019-19020100001 is acknowledged. The experiments involving human subjects have been performed with their full, informed consent.

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