A soft, flexible sensor system could help map problematic pressure points in the socket of an amputee’s prosthetic limb, researchers report.
The lightweight, soft textile-based sensor prototype patch incorporates a lattice of conductive yarns and is connected to a tiny computer. Researchers tested the system on a prosthetic limb and in walking experiments with two human volunteers and discovered it could reliably track pressure changes in real time.
“What people commonly use to measure pressure within prosthetics are rigid sensors,” says Jordan Tabor, a graduate student in the North Carolina State University College of Textiles and first author of a study on the patch in
by Laura Oleniacz February 1, 2021 .
RALEIGH – A soft, flexible sensor system created with electrically conductive yarns could help map problematic pressure points in the socket of an amputee’s prosthetic limb, researchers from North Carolina State University report in a new study.
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IEEE Sensors Journal, researchers from North Carolina State University reported on the lightweight, soft textile-based sensor prototype patch. The device incorporates a lattice of conductive yarns and is connected to a tiny computer. They tested the system on a prosthetic limb and in walking experiments with two human volunteers, finding the system could reliably track pressure changes in real time.