Body Position Garment

Many solutions have been devised to the problem of sensing limb/head position, but these generally involve external equipment, such as cameras, or cumbrous mechanical sensors, which render them unsuitable for everyday use.

My idea is to have a string vest (and trousers if leg position is required), weaved from fibres whose resistance varies with tension. The vest would be long sleeved, with fine meshed glove extensions for the fingers.

The resistance of each fibre in the mesh is sensed, and used as input to a processor (possibly a neural network could be used). Moving the limbs, head, fingers etc would stretch the fibres of the garment in various ways, altering their resistance. The processor mangles this data and sends out position data for all the articulated joints.

The device would need extensive calibration and training.