ETEXWELD - Welding of E-Textiles for Interactive Clothing


Kurşun Bahadır S. (Yürütücü), Kalaoğlu F.

UFUK 2020 Projesi, 2015 - 2020

  • Proje Türü: UFUK 2020 Projesi
  • Başlama Tarihi: Ocak 2015
  • Bitiş Tarihi: Mart 2020

Proje Özeti

The new field of science dealing with implementation of electronics to textiles incombination with informatics is known as e-textiles. This project proposal leads toknowledge transfer among partners in order to develop innovative e-textile productsfor interactive protective clothing and footwear using welding technologies bybringing experts from different countries, sectors and disciplines together to focustheir effort in innovative e-textile product designs. Within this context, the project aims to develop novel e-textile structures includingtransmission lines, sensors, actuators, microprocessors, personalized algorithms,on-body computing and user feedbacks in order to make a breakthrough towardsdevelopment of interactive protective clothing and footwear that able to monitorhealth, activity, position of the user in the environmental risky situations, the weldingtechnologies will be mainly used in three concepts:

I. Designing of transmission lines of e-textile structures; II. Integration of electronic elements (different sensors, actuators, microprocessors,data transmission and power supply systems) to textile structures; III. Design and development of whole e-textile system for protective clothingapplications including interactive protective garments and shoes.Thus, project draws on strong transitions of textiles, electronics and informaticsresearches and is internationally acknowledged for its pioneering contributions to e-textile researches through the industry-academia cooperation. This will not only helpto develop future generations of entrepreneurial researchers more capable ofcontributing effectively to the knowledge-based e-textile research area, within andbetween public and private sectors, but also add to the intersectorial and trans-national employability of these researchers as well as to the attraction of young people to a research career on textile/electronics areas.