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Wearable vibration sensors for human motion monitoring are beneficial for doctors to observe the process of patient rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment in real-time. However, realizing smart sensing and self-powering of wearable devices is still challenging. Herein we developed a portable and reproducible triboelectric-electromagnetic vibration sensor (TE-VS) composed of a rolling-type triboelectric nanogenerator (R-TENG) and a slidertype electromagnetic generator (S-EMG), which aims to achieve highly sensitive detection and rapid identification of human motion. The ingenious mechanical design of the TE-VS enables the R-TENG component to adopt tangential contact friction and the S-EMG component to mutually move between magnets and coils in a non-contact way, which greatly improves the capture efficiency of weak motion, reduces material wear and increases the service life of the device. Multi-channel self-powered sensing signals fusion in a miniaturized space aims to enhance the algorithms detection accuracy of TE-VS. Importantly, the spring damping system improves the device's response speed to external vi-brations and reduces the impact of shocks, which contributes to improving operation stability. The output responses of different frequency responses and different accelerations were charac-terized, which validated the potential of TE-VS in gesture recognition and limb disorder detection. Additionally, TE-VS was also demonstrated as a powerful vibration energy harvester to fully charge a & mu;F-level commercial capacitor in a short time. The proposed TE-VS realizes battery-free operation, solves the long-term power supply problem of wearable devices, and facilitates the real-time monitoring application of human rehabilitation exercises. This is definitely a promising application for human rehabilitation medical devices.
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Institution广东工业大学
