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Low-Cost Self-Calibration Data Glove Based on Space-Division Multiplexed Flexible Optical Fiber Sensor

Wearable devices such as data gloves have experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades. It is vital to develop flexible sensors with fast response, high sensitivity and high stability for intelligent data gloves. Therefore, a tractable low-cost flexible data glove with self-calibration fu...

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Autores principales: Yu, Hui, Zheng, Daifu, Liu, Yun, Chen, Shimeng, Wang, Xiaona, Peng, Wei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9572434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36235883
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14193935
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author Yu, Hui
Zheng, Daifu
Liu, Yun
Chen, Shimeng
Wang, Xiaona
Peng, Wei
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Zheng, Daifu
Liu, Yun
Chen, Shimeng
Wang, Xiaona
Peng, Wei
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description Wearable devices such as data gloves have experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades. It is vital to develop flexible sensors with fast response, high sensitivity and high stability for intelligent data gloves. Therefore, a tractable low-cost flexible data glove with self-calibration function based on a space-division multiplexed flexible optical fiber sensor is proposed. A simple, stable and economical method was used to fabricate flexible silicone rubber fiber for a stretchable double-layered coaxial cylinder. The test results show that the fiber is not sensitive to the temperature range of (20~50 °C) and exhibits excellent flexibility and high stability under tensile, bending and torsional deformation. In addition, the signal detection part of the data glove enables compact and efficient real-time information acquisition and processing. Combined with a self-calibration function that can improve the accuracy of data acquisition, the data glove can be self-adaptive according to different hand sizes and bending habits. In a gesture capture test, it can accurately recognize and capture each gesture, and guide the manipulator to make the same action. The low-cost, fast-responding and structurally robust data glove has potential applications in areas such as sign language recognition, telemedicine and human–robot interaction.
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spelling pubmed-95724342022-10-17 Low-Cost Self-Calibration Data Glove Based on Space-Division Multiplexed Flexible Optical Fiber Sensor Yu, Hui Zheng, Daifu Liu, Yun Chen, Shimeng Wang, Xiaona Peng, Wei Polymers (Basel) Article Wearable devices such as data gloves have experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades. It is vital to develop flexible sensors with fast response, high sensitivity and high stability for intelligent data gloves. Therefore, a tractable low-cost flexible data glove with self-calibration function based on a space-division multiplexed flexible optical fiber sensor is proposed. A simple, stable and economical method was used to fabricate flexible silicone rubber fiber for a stretchable double-layered coaxial cylinder. The test results show that the fiber is not sensitive to the temperature range of (20~50 °C) and exhibits excellent flexibility and high stability under tensile, bending and torsional deformation. In addition, the signal detection part of the data glove enables compact and efficient real-time information acquisition and processing. Combined with a self-calibration function that can improve the accuracy of data acquisition, the data glove can be self-adaptive according to different hand sizes and bending habits. In a gesture capture test, it can accurately recognize and capture each gesture, and guide the manipulator to make the same action. The low-cost, fast-responding and structurally robust data glove has potential applications in areas such as sign language recognition, telemedicine and human–robot interaction. MDPI 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9572434/ /pubmed/36235883 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14193935 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Low-Cost Self-Calibration Data Glove Based on Space-Division Multiplexed Flexible Optical Fiber Sensor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9572434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36235883
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14193935
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