Self‐Powered Wearable Displacement Sensor for Continuous Respiratory Monitoring and Human‐Machine Synchronous Control

Flexible wearable electronic devices play a vital role in daily monitoring, medical diagnosis, and human-computer interaction, and such devices have a great demand for portability, integration, comfort, and self-power. In this study, a triboelectric nanogenerator integrated into a flexible chest belt is proposed as a displacement sensor to monitor the displacement and frequency of thoracic expansion. Based on three parallel interpolation electrode structures with phase differences, the Triboelectric Nanogenerators's(TENG) output signal pulse number can characterize the sliding displacement, with a resolution of more than 1 mm and a durability of more than 700,000 cycles. Based on the flexible printed circuit processing technology, the volume of the sensor is less than 8.5 cm