TY - GEN
T1 - Influences of Coating and Spandex Compositions of Conductive Textiles Used as Strain Sensors Using an Automated Test System
AU - Wohlrab, Stefan
AU - Petz, Phillip Michael Christian Fred
AU - Eibensteiner, Florian
AU - Langer, Josef
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The combination of fabrics with unique electrical properties and miniaturized electronics make it possible to integrate textile sensors into wearable clothing. The applications are diverse and range from sweat detection and the measurement of vital parameters via textile electrodes to measuring the applied pressure and tension on the textile. In this paper, we present a procedure for the characterization and evaluation of conductive textiles as strain sensors. We compare the behaviour of commercially available conductive textiles with our own solutions based on jersey and screen printed conductive particles. The coating composition and the effect on the resistance behaviour under tensile load is evaluated by long-term tests and defined load tests on a custom test bench. The measurements show that the number of conductive particles in the coating influences the resistance of the unstretched patch. No correlation was found between the spandex content and the characteristics of the textiles.
AB - The combination of fabrics with unique electrical properties and miniaturized electronics make it possible to integrate textile sensors into wearable clothing. The applications are diverse and range from sweat detection and the measurement of vital parameters via textile electrodes to measuring the applied pressure and tension on the textile. In this paper, we present a procedure for the characterization and evaluation of conductive textiles as strain sensors. We compare the behaviour of commercially available conductive textiles with our own solutions based on jersey and screen printed conductive particles. The coating composition and the effect on the resistance behaviour under tensile load is evaluated by long-term tests and defined load tests on a custom test bench. The measurements show that the number of conductive particles in the coating influences the resistance of the unstretched patch. No correlation was found between the spandex content and the characteristics of the textiles.
KW - Sensor characteristics
KW - Smart textile
KW - Textile sensors
KW - Wearable sensor
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-10464-0_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-10464-0_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85135041917
SN - 9783031104633
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 306
EP - 321
BT - Intelligent Computing - Proceedings of the 2022 Computing Conference
A2 - Arai, Kohei
PB - Springer
T2 - Computing Conference, 2022
Y2 - 14 July 2022 through 15 July 2022
ER -