I-Corps: Smart Compression Garments for Fitness and Athletics

I-Corps：适用于健身和运动的智能压缩服装

• 批准号: 2002529
• 负责人: Yon Visell
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2002529&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Smart; Compression; Garments; Fitness

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to commercialize smart compression garments for enhancing performance gains during fitness, athletic training, and rehabilitation. The products to be commercialized are intended to address important needs in health and training that may be of interest to many fitness enthusiasts, amateur or professional athletes, and individuals recovering from physical challenges. This could include millions of individuals in the United States. The potential benefits for society and the economy are commensurately high. In the long term, this project may hold benefits for a large number of individuals that personally or professionally engage in physically demanding activities in the workplace, or that require physical assistance for activities of daily living. The underlying technology holds the potential to enable applications in healthcare and assistive and rehabilitative devices that could improve quality of life.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a fabric technology that consists of a soft, muscle-like robotic fabric, that uses an actuated composite polymer textile. These actuated textiles consist of composite fabric structures that integrate an elastic-hydraulic transmission. Previous research revealed that the textiles are capable of supplying large, dynamic forces or displacements via soft fabrics that may be fashioned into wearable garments, which may be fabricated using facile textile manufacturing methods. This technology holds the potential to enable a wide variety of wearable garments with applications in fitness, healthcare, and many other areas.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是将智能压缩服装商业化，以提高健身、运动训练和康复期间的表现。即将商业化的产品旨在满足许多健身爱好者、业余或专业运动员以及从身体挑战中恢复的个人可能感兴趣的健康和训练方面的重要需求。这可能包括美国数百万人。对社会和经济的潜在好处是相当高的。从长远来看，该项目可能会为大量个人或专业人士在工作场所从事体力要求高的活动，或在日常生活活动中需要身体帮助的人带来好处。基础技术有可能使医疗保健、辅助和康复设备中的应用成为可能，从而提高生活质量。I-Corps的这个项目是基于一种织物技术的开发，该技术由一种柔软的、类似肌肉的机器人织物组成，该织物使用一种驱动的复合聚合物纺织品。这些驱动纺织品由复合织物结构组成，该结构集成了弹性液压传动。先前的研究表明，这种纺织品能够通过柔软的织物提供大的、动态的力或位移，这种柔软的织物可以制成可穿戴的服装，这种服装可以用简单的纺织制造方法制造。这项技术有潜力使各种可穿戴服装应用于健身、医疗保健和许多其他领域。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。