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Motion Tape: An Elastic Fabric Wearable Sensor for Human Physiological and Functional Performance Assessment

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Title/Author:	Motion Tape: An Elastic Fabric Wearable Sensor for Human Physiological and Functional Performance Assessment/ Yun-An Lin.
Author:	Lin, Yun-An,
Description:	1 electronic resource (176 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-07, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International87-07B.
Subject:	Materials science. -
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ISBN:	9798270298647

Motion Tape: An Elastic Fabric Wearable Sensor for Human Physiological and Functional Performance Assessment
Lin, Yun-An,

Motion Tape: An Elastic Fabric Wearable Sensor for Human Physiological and Functional Performance Assessment [eletronic resource] /Yun-An Lin. - 1 electronic resource (176 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-07, Section: B.

Advances in wearable sensing technologies continue to transform the assessment of human movement, muscle engagement, and physiological function across sports, clinical, and military settings. Traditional systems such as optical motion capture (mocap) and surface electromyography (sEMG) provide valuable biomechanical and neuromuscular information, yet they remain constrained by their laboratory requirements, susceptibility to motion artifacts, and limited suitability for everyday or field applications. To address these limitations, this work introduces a comprehensive framework for flexible, self-adhesive, textile-based skin-strain sensors created by integrating thin, piezoresistive graphene nanosheet (GNS) films with unidirectionally stretchable kinesiology tape (K-Tape). These "Motion Tape" sensors conform to the skin, offer high sensitivity and linearity, and leverage the inherent compliance of K-Tape to provide stable, repeatable, and movement-artifact-resistant strain measurements during natural movement. Extensive mechanical characterization during the developmental stages validated Motion Tape's tensile, compressive, cyclic, and fatigue sensing performance. In addition, human subject experiments demonstrated strong agreement between Motion Tape outputs and mocap-derived kinematic measures, showing Motion Tape's ability in reliably quantifying skin-strains associated with complex motions. Because the sensors directly measure skin deformation rather than track marker motion, they avoid common mocap issues related to clothing interference, line-of-sight, or constrained movement environments. Furthermore, when coupled with electrical impedance tomography (EIT), single-strip and mesh-type Motion Tape configurations enabled continuous mapping of strain distributions across wider, spatially distributed regions, allowing insight into how skin stretches when multiple muscle groups engage during functional activities. Additional experiments showed strong correlations between skin-strain measurements and sEMG signals during resistance-based upper-limb exercises, highlighting that Motion Tape can serve as a powerful tool for assessing muscle engagement during functional movements. Beyond general biomechanical tracking, the sensors proved valuable for skill assessment, coaching, and performance refinement. When worn on major muscle groups during sport- or task-relevant movements, Motion Tape revealed characteristic strain waveforms that reflected timing, intensity, and duration of muscle engagement. During simulated marksmanship activities, the sensors differentiated between movement patterns associated with poor versus corrected techniques, offering a promising tool for automated or instructor-assisted feedback, particularly when using a deep convolutional autoencoder machine learning algorithm. The nanocomposite sensor also extends to physiological monitoring. By incorporating Motion Tape with commercial chest bands using snap-button terminations, low-cost disposable respiration sensors were developed. When interfaced with a portable, custom-designed, data acquisition node, Motion Tape served as a field-deployable respiration sensor. Further tests validated sensing streams acquired from Motion Tape against a commercial, force-based respiration sensor, thereby verifying its accuracy and ease of integration. To ensure reliable performance in realistic environments, an orthogonal nanocomposite patterning method was developed to mitigate environmental effects, particularly temperature-induced resistance drift. This materials-level approach forms a low-profile, passive, strain-compensation Wheatstone bridge directly on the sensor substrate, enabling reliable measurements even under varying ambient conditions. To summarize, this work establishes a versatile, low-cost, and scalable sensing paradigm capable of robustly monitoring human movement, muscle engagement, and physiological signals across various athletic, clinical, military, and free-living settings.

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ISBN: 9798270298647Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Materials science.
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Surface electromyography

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