Bioinspired Magnetized String with Tension-Dependent Eigenfrequencies for Wearable Human–Machine Interactions

Biao Qi, Sen Ding, Yuanzhe Liang, Dan Fang, Ming Lei, Wenxue Dai, Chao Peng, Bingpu Zhou · 2024

Read Bioinspired Magnetized String with Tension-Dependent Eigenfrequencies for Wearable Human–Machine Interactions by Biao Qi, Sen Ding, Yuanzhe Liang, Dan Fang, Ming Lei, Wenxue Dai, Chao Peng, Bingpu Zhou (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11647967.txt.

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Biao Qi and co-authors present a 2024 journal article on a magnetized string that turns pull into commands for wearable interfaces. Inspired by tendons, the device reads the string's natural vibration tone: stretch changes the pitch, and a coil picks the tone up electrically as a fading ringing signal. Each tone stands for one command, so many commands share a single channel.

Designers can tune the tone library by string size, material, or tension, and even retune one string mid-use by changing its stretched length. Demonstrations ran touch addressing, identity checks, and robot control. The authors offer the scheme as a simple, high-capacity wearable link.

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CREATORBiao Qi, Sen Ding, Yuanzhe Liang, Dan Fang, Ming Lei, Wenxue Dai, Chao Peng, Bingpu Zhou
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE56 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11647967

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