Wearable Monitoring Systems

NEWS

Call for papers: journal "Sensors" (MDPI - ISSN 1424-8220) - Special issue on "Soft Sensors for Motion Capture and Analysis"

Call for papers: journal "Technologies" (MDPI - ISSN 2227-7080) - Special issue on "Reviews and Advances in Internet of Things Technologies"

Research activities

• Development of Wearable Technologies for monitoring of physiological, environmental and activity parameters of people performing activities of daily living
• Innovative smart textile based sensing technologies
• Wearable electronics and micro-sensors

• Smart Textile sensing​
• ​Gesture/activity classification and Motion capture/analysis through textile-based deformation sensors and goniometers (integrated in gloves, shirts etc..)
• Innnovative smart sensing materials such as Conductive Elastomers (CE) and Knitted piezoresistive fabrics (KPF)
• Piezo-resistive effects: a fabric deformation can be related to a sensor electrical resistance variation
• Elasticity, lightness, good comfort for the user
• ​Applications: rehabilitation, sport and human machine interaction

• ​Wearable electronics and micro-sensors 
• ​Unobtrusive Physiological and behavioural wearable acquisition systems through the development of an all-in-one solution integrated in a chest band for stress correlates detection
• ECG, breathing and human activity  monitoring
• Development of a sensing glove for gesture and emotional states sensing
• Hand orientation, finger position and electrodermal activity
• Hand prosthesic 
• Innovative control scheme based on traditional EMG fused with force and inertial sensing

• Data fusion
• ​Inertial and phsysiological sensors for accurate human activity classification
• Enhancing the performance of upper limb gesture reconstruction through sensory fusion between inertial and textile-based deformation sensors

Ongoing and past projects

• Training and monitoring of daily-life physical INTERACTION with the environment after stroke, European Project FP7-ICT-2011-7-287351, November 2011 - October 2014
• The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS), European Project (IP) FP7-ICT-2009-5-258749, September 2010 - August 2014
• MANOROBOTICA, national project funded by regione Toscana in the Por Creo 2007-2013 frame.  Subcontractor of Fabrica Machinale S.r.l for the development of innovative sensing interfaces for the control of hand prosthesis. The project was selected as one of the 24 eccelent regional projects on a total of 2536
• Una nuova generazione di tecnologie interattive personali per facilitare l’apprendimento di compiti motori e per la neuroriabilitazione, progetto PRIN2009 
• Bio custom shoes toward therapeutic technology (BCS-TTEC), national project funded by regione Toscana in the Por Creo 2007-2013 frame.  Subcontractor of Fabrica Machinale S.r.l for the development of innovative sensing technologies for the integration in orthopedic shoes and toward the design of personalized footwear
• Interreality in the Management and Treatment of Stress-Related Disorders (INTERSTRESS), European Project FP7-ICT-2009-4-247685, March 2010 - February 2013
• Unobtrusive authentication using activity related and soft biometrics (ACTIBIO), European Project FP7-ICT-2007.1.4-215372, March 2008 - February 2011
• Coordination action for enhancing the breakthhrough of intelligent textile systems (SYSTEX), European Project FP7-ICT-2007-224386, May 2008 - April 2011
• Perceptive Spaces Promoting independent Aging (PERSONA), European Project (IP) ST-2005-2.6.2-045459, January 2007 -June 2010
  Protection e-Textiles: MicroNanoStructured fibre systems for Emergency-Disaster Wear (ProeTEX), European Project (IP) FP6-2004-IST-4-026987, February 2006 - July 2010
• MyHeart-Fighting cardio-vascular diseases by preventive lifestyle & early diagnosis (MyHeart), European Project (IP) FP6-IST-2002-507816, January 2004-December 2009