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Research project

Low-cost personalised instrumented clothing with integrated FES electrodes

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Kai Yang

Professor

Research interests

  • Electronic textile materials and manufacturing
  • Wearable medical devices (e.g. stroke rehabilitation, pain management)
  • Digital healthcare
Connect with Kai

Email: ky2e09@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Freeman PhD, BEng, BSc, CEng, FIET

Professor

Research interests

  • Iterative learning and repetitive control theory and their experimental application to industrial systems and biomedical engineering
  • Biomechanics 
  • Motor learning and control
Connect with Chris

Email: cf@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr John Tudor

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Smart fabrics/e-textiles
  • MEMS and microfabrication
  • Sensors and Transducers
Connect with John

Email: mjt@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Beeby PhD, FIEEE, FInstP, FIET, CEng, CPhys

Professor of Electronic Systems & Device

Research interests

  • Electronic Textiles
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Smart Materials
Connect with Stephen

Email: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr Ann-Marie Hughes

Associate Professor
Connect with Ann-Marie

Email: A.Hughes@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Multichannel biphasic muscle stimulation system for post stroke rehabilitation
Tyler Ward, Neil Grabham, Christopher Freeman, Yang Wei, Ann-Marie Hughes, Conor Power, Michael Tudor & Kai Yang, 2020, Electronics, 9(7), 1-13
DOI: 10.3390/electronics9071156
Type: article
Electronic textiles based wearable electrotherapy for pain relief
Meijing Liu, Tyler Ward, Dan Young, Helga Matos, Yang Wei, Joanna Adams & Kai Yang, 2020, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 303
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2019.111701
Type: article
Wearable electrical stimulation to improve lymphatic function
Wei Yang, Kai Yang, Martin Browne, Luciana Bostan & Peter Worsley, 2019, IEEE Sensor Letters, 3(2)
DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2019.2893478
Type: article
Factors affecting rehabilitation and use of upper limb after stroke
Katie Meadmore, Emma Hallewell, Christopher Freeman & Ann-Marie Hughes, 2018, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation
DOI: 10.1080/10749357.2018.1544845
Type: article
Development of user-friendly wearable electronic textiles for healthcare applications
Kai Yang, Katie Meadmore, Chris Freeman, Neil Grabham, Ann-Marie Hughes, Yang Wei, Russel Torah, Monika Glanc-Gostkiewicz, Steve Beeby & John Tudor, 2018, Sensors, 18(8)
DOI: 10.3390/s18082410
Type: article