Many of the daily activities of a person involve physical contact with the ground: be it walking,
Although the smart carpet from MIT engineers cannot fly and speak, its tactile sensors are capable of assessing people's postures without using visual images from cameras.
The new system only used them to createthe dataset on which the system was trained. In order for the carpet to receive information about the position of the body, a person simply needs to stand (or sit) on it and perform an action. The deep neural network then uses only tactile information to determine if the person has done squats, stretches, or some other action.
The carpet itself is inexpensive and scalabletechnology. It is made of commercial pressure-sensitive film and conductive threads with 9,000 sensors. Each one converts a person's pressure into an electrical signal.
The authors of the development are confident that it will lead to the improvement of autonomous individual health care systems, smart home and computer games.
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