Modeling and simulating electronic textile applications

— This paper describes our experiences with a simulation environment for electronic textiles. This simulation environment, based upon Ptolemy, enables us to model a diverse range of areas related to the design of electronic textiles, including the physical environment they will be used in, the behavior of the sensors incorporated into the fabric, the on-fabric network, the power consumption of the system, and the execution of the application and system software. We present results for two different applications, a large-scale acoustic beamformer and a pair of shape-sensing pants. Categories and Subject Descriptors The ACM Computing Classification Scheme: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ General Terms-Measurement, Performance, Design, Reliability, Experimentation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: LCTRTS
• Authors: Thomas Martin, Mark T. Jones, Joshua Edmison, Tanwir Sheikh, Zahi Nakad
• Keywords: Electronic Textiles, Large-scale Acoustic Beamformer, LCTRTS 2004, Simulation Environment, Software Engineering