The design and control of an active ankle‐foot rehabilitation orthotic system that was designed as a wearable and portable rehabilitation and walking assistive tool is presented. This device can measure and assist the six degree of freedoms (DOFs) movement of the human ankle joint by using a Stewart platform mechanism, which can adapt to the displacement of the r...

Chronic wounds form a emerging hospitalization factor especially for elderly people. More than 10 million people in Europe suffer from chronic wounds, a number which is expected to grow due to the aging of the population. In order to address chronic wound management, SWAN-iCare project aims to develop a smart wearable and autonomous negative pressure device for wound monitoring and therapy. In ...

Exoskeletons are companion devices that help a person to perform various daily activities. These can range from work medical rehabilitation. The type of activity performed depend on the construction and control exoskeleton, so some for only one arm, others both, be driven by motors directly or through cables. based information received position, force, speed sensors using EMG, EEG signals. Exos...

To date, quite a few wearable electronics have entered the market, which are changing the life pattern of consumers. However, the limited lifetime and energy storage capacity have made rechargeable batteries the bottleneck in wearable technology, especially with the increase of number of wearable devices and their large distribution. To solve this problem, we demonstrate a woven-structured trib...

Wearable computing can describe a broad range of devices and concepts. At the time of this writing, wearables are generally equated with head-up, wearable displays; onehanded keyboards; and custom computers worn in satchels or belt packs. Figures 1 through 4 show members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Wearable Computing Project with some of their wearable devices. Unfortunately,...

Wearable technology has broad market prospects in the military, fire protection, medical and health, sports other fields under its ability to effectively solve practical application needs. Self-powered energy systems with miniaturized, light-weight, highly flexible, stretchable, bendable, wearable properties have received extensive attention industry as they can meet needs of new-generation ele...

Wearable computing promises to gain efficiency improvements in industrial applications due to augmentation of the device as well as improved interaction between the user and the device. In this paper, we present the results of a study with focus on utilization of wearable computing in industrial service applications. Our study consisted of a preliminary market scan with regard to wearable compu...