Wearable Kinesthetic System for Capturing and Classifying Upper Limb Gesture

Background: Monitoring body kinematics has fundamental relevance in several biological and technical disciplines. In particular the possibility to exactly know the posture may furnish a main aid in rehabilitation topics. In the present work an innovative and unobtrusive garment able to detect the posture and the movement of the upper limb has been introduced, with particular care to its application in post stroke rehabilitation field by describing the integration of the prototype in a healthcare service. Methods: This paper deals with the design, the development and implementation of a sensing garment, from the characterization of innovative comfortable and diffuse sensors we used to the methodologies employed to gather information on the posture and movement which derive from the entire garments. Several new algorithms devoted to the signal acquisition, the treatment and posture and gesture reconstruction are introduced and tested. Results: Data obtained by means of the sensing garme...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: HAPTICS
• Authors: R. Bartalesi, Federico Lorussi, M. Tesconi, Alessandro Tognetti, G. Zupone, Danilo De Rossi
• Keywords: HAPTICS 2005, Human Movement, Movement Tracking System, Upper Limb, Virtual Reality