Textile Chipless Tag for Gesture Recognition

Abstract

In this paper a novel fully–textile chipless tag for gesture recognition applications is presented. The proposed tag consists of a microstrip line with transmission zeros controlled by the position of the fingers. This is obtained by associating to each finger an open ended stub that is electrically connected or not to the microstrip line depending on the finger position. A three–finger prototype fabricated by using a non woven conductive fabric and suitable to be integrated into a glove is presented and discussed. The reported results demonstrate the suitability of using the proposed tag for gesture recognition applications.