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Title | ||
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Cardio-Respiratory Monitoring in Archery Using a Smart Textile Based on Flexible Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. |
Abstract | ||
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In precision sports, the control of breathing and heart rate is crucial to help the body to remain stable in the shooting position. To improve stability, archers try to adopt similar breathing patterns and to have a low heartbeat during each shot. We proposed an easy-to-use and unobtrusive smart textile (ST) which is able to detect chest wall excursions due to breathing and heart beating. The sensing part is based on two FBGs housed into a soft polymer matrix to optimize the adherence to the chest wall and the system robustness. The ST was assessed on volunteers to figure out its performance in the estimation of respiratory frequency (f(R)) and heart rate (HR). Then, the system was tested on two archers during four shooting sessions. This is the first study to monitor cardio-respiratory activity on archers during shooting. The good performance of the ST is supported by the low mean absolute percentage error for f(R) and HR estimation (<= 1.97% and <= 5.74%, respectively), calculated with respect to reference signals (flow sensor for f(R), photopletismography sensor for HR). Moreover, results showed the capability of the ST to estimate f(R) and HR during different phases of shooting action. The promising results motivate future investigations to speculate about the influence of f(R) and HR on archers' performance. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.3390/s19163581 | SENSORS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
fiber Bragg gratings,smart textiles,wearable systems,cardiac monitoring,respiratory monitoring,precision sports,archery | Cardiac monitoring,Mean absolute percentage error,Fiber Bragg grating,Heartbeat,Simulation,Electronic engineering,Breathing,Respiratory monitoring,Engineering,Heart rate,Cardiorespiratory fitness | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
19 | 16.0 | 1424-8220 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.59 | 0 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniela Lo Presti | 1 | 6 | 1.02 |
| Chiara Romano | 2 | 4 | 0.59 |
| Carlo Massaroni | 3 | 4 | 0.59 |
| Jessica D'Abbraccio | 4 | 4 | 0.59 |
| Luca Massari | 5 | 5 | 0.95 |
| Michele Arturo Caponero | 6 | 27 | 10.83 |
| Calogero Maria Oddo | 7 | 123 | 15.81 |
| Domenico Formica | 8 | 88 | 26.60 |
| Emiliano Schena | 9 | 106 | 43.86 |