Textile Sensors

Scope

The technical committee is focused on the research and dissemination activities carried out by the members working on textile sensors for biomedicine, unobtrusive monitoring and robotics.

Textile sensors may enable continuous and long-term monitoring of health (heart rate, respiration, biomarkers) and physical performance (bodily movements, gait analysis, activity tracking, rehabilitation9 and ensure bidirectional human machine interaction. To augment textile substrates – intrinsically light, flexible and stretchable – with multimodal sensing elements (e.g. deformation, temperature sensors, chemical sensors, biosensors) is a challenging task with many potential application fields.

The long-lasting experience of the Italian community operating in the textile sensor field includes:

  • New sensing principles and sensor design
  • Sensor modeling and characterization
  • Multifunctional materials (conductive, piezoresistive, piezoelectric, thermoresistive)
  • Textile-compatible processes (knitting, printing, embroidery, surface coating)
  • Technology transfer
  • Applications for biomedicine, IOT, human computer interaction and robotics

This technical committee aims at representing a multi-disciplinary forum to collect and share contributions from different research sectors (engineering, materials, manufacturing, chemistry) and expertise (measurement science, electronics, biomedical engineering, automation, robotics, etc.)

The technical committee aims at putting together theoretical studies on textile sensing principles, new developments on manufacturing technologies and multi-functional materials as well as experimental approaches in controlled and operative conditions.

The textile sensor group will stimulate a strong interaction with the other closely related technical committees (i.e. wearable sensors, soft sensors, physiological sensors, tactile sensors) to build a strong cluster in the field of flexible and stretchable electronics.

Alessandro_Tognetti (1)

Dipartimento Ingegneria Informazione presso DICI-sede di Ingegneria strutturale (Polo A-primo piano)

Tel. 0502218252

alessandro.tognetti@unipi.it.

Chair

Alessandro Tognetti

Alessandro Tognetti – PhD is Assistant Professor in Bioengineering. Graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2001. In 2005 he received the PhD degree in Robotics, Automation and Bioengineering.

His current research is on the design of wearable interfaces and e-textiles for human posture and movement detection, specifically sensor design and signal and information processing. In the last years has carried out research and development activity through many European and International projects (more than 15) as team leader.

Among these projects he was WP leader of the EU IP project ProeTex, leading a group of 12 partners developing sensors and biosensors for emergency personnel monitoring.

He is author of more than 100 peer reviewed scientific contributes.