Recent Progress in Flexible Wearable Sensors for Vital Sign Monitoring

Liu, Jihong; Liu, Meilin; Bai, Yu; Zhang, Jiahao; Liu, Hongwei; Zhu, Weihong

doi:10.3390/s20144009

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“…CNT-modified electrodes have been widely used for the detection of biomolecules due to their large active surface area, high conductivity, fast electron transfer kinetics and biocompatibility. They have also been used to provide chemical and electrochemical stability to the overall sensor [ 40 , 311 ]. Furthermore, CNTs are useful for the detection of neurotransmitters because the CNTs enhance the sensitivity and selectivity and have electrocatalytic effects, making them ideal biological sensors [ 312 ].…”

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Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded in Conductive Polymers: A State of the Art

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Carbon nanomaterials are at the forefront of the newest technologies of the third millennium, and together with conductive polymers, represent a vast area of indispensable knowledge for developing the devices of tomorrow. This review focusses on the most recent advances in the field of conductive nanotechnology, which combines the properties of carbon nanomaterials with conjugated polymers. Hybrid materials resulting from the embedding of carbon nanotubes, carbon dots and graphene derivatives are taken into consideration and fully explored, with discussion of the most recent literature. An introduction into the three most widely used conductive polymers and a final section about the most recent biological results obtained using carbon nanotube hybrids will complete this overview of these innovative and beyond belief materials.

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Section: Cnt Embedded With Conjugated Polymersmentioning

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Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded in Conductive Polymers: A State of the Art

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“…Therefore, sensors are necessary in controlling a soft gripper. At present, the types of sensors used on soft grippers include resistive sensors [ 28 , 31 , 32 , 33 ], capacitive sensors [ 34 , 35 ], flexible electronics [ 36 ], strain sensitive fabrics [ 37 ], magnetic sensors [ 38 , 39 ], and soft pneumatic sensors [ 40 , 41 ]. As previous studies described, most of the above sensors are directly attached to the surface of the finger or manufactured together.…”

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Modeling of a Soft-Rigid Gripper Actuated by a Linear-Extension Soft Pneumatic Actuator

Cheng

Jia

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Soft robot has been one significant study in recent decades and soft gripper is one of the popular research directions of soft robot. In a static gripping system, excessive gripping force and large deformation are the main reasons for damage of the object during the gripping process. For achieving low-damage gripping to the object in static gripping system, we proposed a soft-rigid gripper actuated by a linear-extension soft pneumatic actuator in this study. The characteristic of the gripper under a no loading state was measured. When the pressure was >70 kPa, there was an approximately linear relation between the pressure and extension length of the soft actuator. To achieve gripping force and fingertip displacement control of the gripper without sensors integrated on the finger, we presented a non-contact sensing method for gripping state estimation. To analyze the gripping force and fingertip displacement, the relationship between the pressure and extension length of the soft actuator in loading state was compared with the relationship under a no-loading state. The experimental results showed that the relative error between the analytical gripping force and the measured gripping force of the gripper was ≤2.1%. The relative error between analytical fingertip displacement and theoretical fingertip displacement of the gripper was ≤7.4%. Furthermore, the low damage gripping to fragile and soft objects in static and dynamic gripping tests showed good performance of the gripper. Overall, the results indicated the potential application of the gripper in pick-and-place operations.

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“…Wearable systems are generally used to monitor the vital signs and symptoms of patients, as well as for their follow-up, telehealth, nursing, and healthcare surveillance systems, surgical robots, and many other systems [4]. One of the distinctive features of these systems is that they are always kept by the data-publishing subject (patient).…”

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Design and Evaluation of a Wearable Smart Blanket System for Monitoring Vital Signs of Patients in an Ambulance

2021

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Objectives. Considering the advantages of the wearable systems (such as continuous monitoring, ease of installation, and significant efficiency), they can also be used to monitor patients in emergency situations and, particularly, in the ambulance. This study is aimed at specifying, modeling, and evaluating a wearable smart blanket system for monitoring vital signs in emergency circumstances. Method. At first, all the smart blanket system requirements were specified using an author-made questionnaire, and the essential requirements were specified in the software requirements specification format. Such an anticipated smart wearable blanket is then modeled by Unified Modeling Language. Finally, the most important quality attributes (i.e., the nonfunctional requirements) of the proposed wearable smart blanket system were evaluated using a descriptive-analytical study. Results. Evaluation results of the proposed system show that using the smart blanket system could not only provide the required functionalities, but also, it improved the important quality attributes such as response time and delay in sending data packets (14% improvement), accuracy, energy consumption (18% improvement), reliability and fault-tolerance, and performance (28% improvement) in contrast to the compared related work. Conclusion. Using a smart wearable blanket in an ambulance instead of such in a huge ambulance cabin would be beneficial in terms of time and space, ease of use, and maybe cost while providing the required functionalities besides having proper quality attributes.

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Recent Progress in Flexible Wearable Sensors for Vital Sign Monitoring

Cited by 71 publications

References 101 publications

Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded in Conductive Polymers: A State of the Art

Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded in Conductive Polymers: A State of the Art

Modeling of a Soft-Rigid Gripper Actuated by a Linear-Extension Soft Pneumatic Actuator

Design and Evaluation of a Wearable Smart Blanket System for Monitoring Vital Signs of Patients in an Ambulance

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