Heart Rate Detection Using a Miniaturized Multimodal Tactile Sensor

The paper presents a heart rate detection system using a novel miniaturized multimodal tactile sensor that emulates the four main mechanoreceptors - Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel disks, Ruffini, and Pacinian corpuscles - of the human skin. A heart rate wrist monitor was used to validate the per...

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Published in2019 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Rocha Lima, Bruno Monteiro, Eustaquio Alves de Oliveira, Thiago, da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Zhu, Qi, Goubran, Miriam, Groza, Voicu Z., Petriu, Emil M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2019
Subjects
Heart beat
heart rate detection
multimodal tactile sensor
peak detection algorithm
Skin
Tactile sensors
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Summary:The paper presents a heart rate detection system using a novel miniaturized multimodal tactile sensor that emulates the four main mechanoreceptors - Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel disks, Ruffini, and Pacinian corpuscles - of the human skin. A heart rate wrist monitor was used to validate the performance of the new proposed system. The experiment consisted of placing the tactile sensors on the user's carotid artery. In 80% of the cases, the tactile sensors and the control measured similar values, with a difference of up to 2 bpm. The other results had external interference due to a misplacement of the sensor on the carotid artery.
DOI:10.1109/MeMeA.2019.8802209