Wearable Electronics 

Accurate – Understanding and mitigating triboelectric artifacts in wearable electronics

The goal of this project is to understand the fundamental physical model of motion artifacts in wearable devices from a new perspective and provide synergistic solutions to mitigating the artifacts by leveraging tribomaterial-based sensor design for charge manipulation and statistical data analytics for artifact removal. This project is funded by National Science Foundation.

Flexible – Embroidered electronics towards System-on-Cloth (SoCl)

This project aims to establish a cloud manufacturing network for embroidered electronics towards flexible systems on cloth. The ultimate goal is that everyone can embroider desired wearable systems based on our manufacturing cloud with automatic design-to-manufacturing translation. This project is funded by National Science Foundation.

Self-powered – Turning motion artifacts into energy harvesting

With the understanding of motion artifacts, we are turning these harmful triboelectric induced motion artifacts into energy harvesting towards self-powered wearable systems. 

Wearable and Soft Robotics

Wearable Robotics - Programmable textile robotics for ubiquitous assistance

This project aims to establish a new class of smart and programmable wearable textile robots for upper extremity assistance. The robots will integrate sensing, understanding, and mimicking of skeletal muscle behaviors in real time, through mechanisms based on textile materials made by novel manufacturing techniques. This project is funded by National Science Foundation.