Paper Info
Title
A wearable system based on fiber Bragg grating for monitoring respiratory and heart activity of archers
Abstract
This study focuses on the monitoring of respiratory and heart activities on archers. These activities are linked with performance in precision sports since they can compromise the postural stability. In particular, soft sensors based a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) embedded into a Dragon Skin 10 polymer brick (90 mm length, 24 mm width, 1 mm thick) have been proposed to instrument a wearable system. The movements of the chest wall due to respiratory and the cardiac activities are transmitted through two bands housing an FBG. The consequent change of the FBG output provides an indirect method to monitor respiratory and heart activities. The positions of the instrumented bands on the athlete have been optimized by processing biomechanical data recorded on four archers during the shooting phase and quiet breathing. Then, we investigated the capability of the system to monitor respiratory- and cardiac-induced movements of the chest wall. Tests were performed on two volunteers during different respiratory phases and the simulation of the shooting phase. The output of the two instrumented bands reflects the chest wall movement due to respiration and cardiac pumping (during apnea). These results can be considered the first step toward the analysis of the relationship between archer's performance and cardiorespiratory activity. Besides, the use of the proposed system may be beneficial for analyzing the influence of the mentioned physiological activities on the performance in precision sports athletes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MeMeA.2019.8802177
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fiber Bragg grating sensor,wearable system,physiological monitoring,archery,shooting performance
Fiber bragg grating sensor,Fiber Bragg grating,Postural stability,Physiological monitoring,Wearable computer,Computer science,Breathing,Respiratory system,Acoustics,Cardiorespiratory fitness
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-8429-0
1
0.38
References 
Authors
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chiara Romano110.38
Daniela Lo Presti210.38
Emiliano Schena310643.86
C Massaroni45426.42
Domenico Formica58826.60
Michele A. Caponero610.38
Calogero M. Oddo7103.06
Jessica D'Abbraccio842.21
Luca Massari952.69
Umile Giuseppe Longo1032.83
Alessandra Berton1110.72