Xuyuan Tao

École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles | ENSAIT · Le GEMTEX

Women sports wearer’s comfort and health are greatly impacted by the breast movements and resultant sports bra compression to prevent excessive movement. However, as sports bras are only made in universal sizes, they do not offer the right kind of support that is required for a certain activity. To prevent this issue, textile-based strain sensors m...

As monitoring and diagnostic tools for long COVID-19 cases, wearable systems and supervised learning-based medical image analysis have proven to be useful. Current research on these two technical roadmaps has various drawbacks, despite their respective benefits. Wearable systems allow only the real-time monitoring of physiological parameters (heart...

A library of knowledge that contains a fabric database, 3D human body models database, and 3D garment database has been developed in the framework of the Erasmus+ project DigitalFashion – “Collaborative Online International Learning in Digital Fashion”, which is a collaboration of 6 European partners who would like to strengthen their working toget...

This study presents the development and evaluation of an innovative intelligent garment system, incorporating 3D knitted silver biopotential electrodes, designed for long-term sports monitoring. By integrating advanced textile engineering with wearable monitoring technologies, we introduce a novel approach to real-time physiological signal acquisit...

This study aims to achieve intelligent monitoring of clothing comfort in motion, providing data and technical assistance for the research of comfort in motion and an efficient design foundation for sportswear comfort optimization. In view of the present situation of smart wear used in clothing comfort research, this paper primarily presents the con...

We propose a new low-cost wearable system to guaranty patient mobility and robust monitoring of COVID-19 using physiological signals. Considering the correlation between two key signals (ECG and PPG), the proposed wearable system will integrate an Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) with self-attention block to reconstruct robust ECG, PPG Red and IR sign...

Background Ventricular arrhythmia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) relates to adverse structural change and genetic status. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)–guided electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) noninvasively maps cardiac structural and electrophysiological (EP) properties. Objectives The purpose of this study was to establish whet...

Background Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) generates electrophysiological (EP) biomarkers while cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging provides data about myocardial structure, function and tissue substrate. Combining this information in one examination is desirable but requires an affordable, reusable, and high-throughput solution. We...

INTRODUCTION: In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), ventricular arrhythmia associates with severity of LVH and scar, and presence vs absence of a sarcomeric gene mutation (G+LVH+ vs G-LVH+). Also, ECG changes in subclinical HCM (G+LVH-) signal increased risk of phenotype progression. HYPOTHESES: ECG Imaging (ECGI) can detect: i) subtle electrophysi...

Skills of students and professionals in virtual prototyping of clothing require adaptation to the latest software technologies. Such software enables visualization of the fitted garments, customization of the garments according to personal requirements, faster time-to-market of the clothing products and integration of the entire production chain. C...

Wearable systems measuring human physiological indicators with integrated sensors and supervised learning-based medical image analysis (e.g. ECG, X-ray, CT or ultrasound images for lung or the chest) have been considered relevant tools for COVID-19 monitoring and diagnosis. However, these two technical roadmaps have their respective advantages and...

At present, garment e-commerce is developing rapidly, and the number of online shopping has increased significantly. In this context, the intelligent evaluation technology of garment fit is particularly important. Fit is the most basic requirement in the process of human dressing. It is of great significance to study the relationship between garmen...

The fashion industry is facing increasing pressure to move toward sustainable development, especially with concern to cost and environmental sustainability. Innovative digital technologies are regarded as a promising solution for fashion companies to resolve this issue. In this context, this paper put forth a new 3D reverse garment design approach...

Fit evaluation plays an important role in garment products development and sales. Effective clothing fit evaluation methods can reduce the development cost of apparel products and the return rate of online apparel sales. In this research, we proposed an intelligent fit evaluation technology to predict clothing fit. The mathematical relationship mod...

This paper put forward a new interactive design approach for customized garments towards sustainable fashion using machine learning techniques, including radial basis function artificial neural network (RBF ANN), genetic algorithms (GA), probabilistic neural network (PNN), and support vector regression (SVR). First, RBF ANNs were employed to estima...

Bioelectric signals are significant indicators of the state of health of the human body, especially in sports monitoring, where athletes’ fatigue state and performance need to be monitored in real-time to develop a proper training plan. Due to the characteristics of sports, it is difficult to obtain the dynamic bioelectrical signals of the human bo...

Ship pipelines are the most efficient and cost-effective devices for liquid transportation. However, pipeline leakage can pose a threat to ship operation, human safety, and marine environment, especially for minor or invisible leakage with insufficient monitoring. Herein, we propose a triboelectric liquid leakage sensor (TLLS) based on a liquid-sol...

We introduce in this paper ResvidNet, a new architecture of one-dimensional convolution neural network (CNN) to COVID-19 detection. The proposed architecture consists of an enhance version of ResNet18. The results are compared with common one-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network, a Deep Neural Network, and ResNet18, and show a better performanc...

In order to study the comfort of tight-fitting sportswear in winter, this paper designed a series of motions, and explored the distribution of comfort perception under different sports conditions by evaluating the wearing perception of human body. Finally, through the acquired experimental data, intelligent prediction models were established, and t...

Under dynamic wear conditions, moisture management and heat transfer behaviour of clothing between the human body and its environment are very important attributes for comfort and performance. Especially considering heavy works like firefighting, it is important to analyse liquid moisture management and thermal comfort properties of fabrics that in...

In this study, the distribution characteristics and changing law of sports comfort perception were analyzed by collecting the comfort evaluation data of running in winter tight sportswear, and proposes a network model based on particle swarm optimization-cuckoo search-long short-term memory to track the changing law of motion comfort. First, consid...

This paper presents a garment design recommendation system based on two mathematical models that permit the prediction and control of garment styles and structural parameters from a consumer’s personalized requirements in terms of fitting and aesthetics. Based on a formalized professional garment knowledge base, enabling the quantitative characteri...

Currently, garment fit evaluation is one of the biggest bottlenecks for fashion design and manufacturing. In this paper, we proposed a garment fit prediction model using data learning technology based on Artificial Neural Networks. The inputs of the proposed model are digital clothing pressures measured by virtual try-on, while the output of the mo...

Background The life course accumulation of overt and subclinical myocardial dysfunction contributes to older age mortality, frailty, disability and loss of independence. The Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) is the world’s longest running continued surveillance birth cohort providing a unique opportunity to u...

Focusing on the “human–sport-clothing” system, this paper analyzed the influence of combinations of different tights and sport states on human body parts and overall body comfort from multiple dimensions. However, the motion state and some fabric parameters are non-numerical parameters, which could not be used for model analysis directly. In additi...

E-textiles is a new hybrid field developed with the help of the integration of electronic components into our daily usage of textile products. These wearable e-textiles provide user-defined applications as well as normal textile clothing. The medical field is one of the major leading areas where these new hybrid products are being implemented, and...

In order to study the influence of human body parts on the overall comfort under different sports conditions, this paper designed a series of actions such as standing, squatting, running, walking, and so on, and obtained the key parts that affected the overall comfort at every experimental stage (i.e. every motion state) through subjective evaluati...

Currently, garment fit evaluation is one of the biggest bottlenecks for fashion design and manufacturing. In this paper, we proposed a garment fit prediction model using data learning technology, such as Back Propagation Artificial Neural Networks (BP-ANNs), Random Forest, Bayesian Classifier. The inputs of the proposed model are digital clothing p...

Background: Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) non-invasively maps the heart’s electrical activity through multiple leads on the body surface. Cardiologists need a safe, quick, affordable and re-usable ECGI method to apply to patients undergoing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), but current solutions are not suitable for high-throughput use...

Background Susceptibility to malignant ventricular arrhythmias can be predicted by activation recovery interval (ARI) and repolarisation time (RT) biomarkers noninvasively derived by electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI). The interaction between cardiac structural and electrophysiological changes during aging is unclear. We used our recently develope...

The development of specific user-based wearable smart textiles is gaining interest. The reliability and washability of e-textiles, especially electronic-based components of e-textiles, are under particular investigation nowadays. This is because e-textiles cannot be washed like normal textile products and washing electronic products is not common p...

Garment pattern design is an extremely significant factor for the success of fashion company in mass customization and industry 4.0. In this paper, we proposed a new approach for constructing a garment pattern design knowledge base (GPDKB) using sensory analysis, ontology and support vector regression (SVR) modeling, aiming at systematically formal...

E-textiles reveal a new and hybrid sector of the industry that is created by the integration of electronic components or textile-based electronics in our daily life textile products. They are facing problems in terms of washability, reliability, and user acceptance. This manuscript explains the mechanical stresses acting during the washing process...

The textile-based electrochromic (EC) display which has been developed and presented in this article, is very compact, robust, flexible, stable, efficient, economical, and inclined to biocompatibility. The developed textile display is having only three-layer over conventional seven layers patented electrochromic structures. It is also very efficien...

In this study, polymeric/metallic yarns were fabricated by using the micrometric copper multifilament and the polymer multifilament to create electrically conductive, thin, flexible composite yarn structures. The main aim is to realize the circuit board by using fabricated conductive yarns in the needle position of the embroidery machine and to int...

E-textile, as a growing field in the current era, gained a lot of attention and currently, some tremendous outcomes of these fields can be seen. They are being used in specific functional requirements depending on application types in various fields including medicals, military, safety and leisure, etc. E-textile structures can contain various elem...

Reliability and washability are major hurdles facing the e-textile industry nowadays. The main fear behind the product’s rejection is the inability to ensure its projected life span. The durability of e-textiles is based on an approximate lifetime of both the electronics and textiles integrated into the product. A detailed analysis of the wash proc...

A multi‐resonant split ring resonator (SRR) composed of two circular‐shaped meandered strips is presented. Resonances are first analyzed by means of eigenmodes computation and field mapping. It is shown that a resonance can emerge from a standing wave taking place in each slot produced by a meandered strip. A slot operates as a two‐wire transmissio...

E-textiles; new emerging hybrid systems and devices require novel standards regarding their reliability and durability in order to gain the attraction and satisfaction for the customers and market readiness. Launderability of e-textiles is one of the key problems for their reliability and maintenance. Standards should fulfill the requirements for b...

E-textile is one of the emerging fields of current era and some dynamic and state of the art products are already available on the market. E-textile products are facing problems related to reliability and difficulty in laundering. This paper is focused on the standards to be proposed for washability of e-textile structures after in depth analysis o...

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of lethal issues worldwide. The most effective way to combat these diseases is the real-time monitoring of the electrocardiogram (ECG) that reflects the electrical signals generated by the heart cells. So far, the ECG is recorded by using the cutaneous conventional medical electrodes (Ag/AgCl). These el...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is widely recognised as an established tool for analysing the environmental impact of a product over the entire life cycle. As uncertainty is inevitably present along the analysis process, it is essential to quantify and treat it explicitly. In this paper, Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is implemented for the stochastic stu...

Garment pattern-making is one of the most important parts in fashion design and production. However, the traditional pattern-making is an experience based work and very time-consuming. In this paper, we proposed a parametric design method of garment pattern based on body dimensions. Based on this method, we constructed a jeans' pattern recommendati...

The traceability is of paramount importance and considered as a prerequisite for businesses for long-term functioning in today’s global supply chain. The implementation of traceability can create visibility by the systematic recall of information related to all processes and logistics movement. The traceability coding tag consists of unique feature...

Currently, the work of pattern making and fashion sketch drawing is done by designers and pattern makers respectively. The development of satisfactory garment products requires constant communication between designers and pattern makers. This process is very time-consuming. In this research, we proposed a body-dimension-based associate design metho...

The improvement of human health condition is an important objective that remains relevant since the origin of human being. Currently, cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death worldwide. For this reason, permanent real-time monitoring of heart activity (Electrocardiogram: ECG), its analysis and alerting of concerned person is a solution...

A development of washable PEDOT:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate) polyamide textile-based electrodes is an interesting alternative to the traditional Ag/AgCl disposable electrodes, usually used in clinical practice, helping to improve medical assessment and treatment before apparition or progress of patients' cardiovascul...

Optimal comfort will enable the wearer to work efficiently over long periods of time and help to protect the body from imminent overheating. The thermal performance of fire fighters' protective clothing is primarily based on the thermophysical properties of the materials that are used to construct the clothing. In this study, we have used new fire...

The drive for integration of electronic components into textile substrates has been a major aspect of research into production of smart textiles. Electronic components as such, are rigid, inflexible, do not easily follow body movements and can cause hypersensitivity of the skin upon prolonged contact due either to the presence of irritants or the r...

Even if smart textiles gained a certain level of maturity, they are not yet ready for the market at large scale. The main issues explaining this are related to problems of reliability and difficulties to launder smart textile structures. Smart textiles are also facing problems for launching in market due to lack of standardizations. This paper is f...

Long-term monitoring of the electrical activity of the heart helps to detect the presence of potential dysfunctions, enabling the diagnosis of a wide range of cardiac pathologies. However, standard electrodes used for electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition are not fully integrated into garments, and generally need to be used with a gel to improve cont...

Optimal comfort will enable the wearer to work efficiently over long periods of time and help to protect the body from imminent overheating. The thermal performance of fire fighters' protective clothing is primarily based on the thermophysical properties of the materials that are used to construct the clothing. In this study, we have used new fire...

The traditional pattern-making process is very time-consuming and requires professional fashion design knowledge. In order to develop a form-fitting garment to meet customer’s individual needs, pattern makers must rely on a “trial and error” procedure until the customer is satisfied. In this paper, we proposed a “what you see is what you get” (WYSI...

Presently, garment fit evaluation mainly focuses on real try-on and rarely deals with virtual try-on. With the rapid development of e-commerce, there is a profound growth of garment purchases through the Internet. In this context, fit evaluation of virtual garment try-on is vital in the clothing industry. In this chapter, we propose a Naive Bayes-b...

Garment flats have a wide application in product development production and designing stages. However, the traditional drawing methods of garment flat are very time-consuming, and need professional drawing skills. In this paper, a parametric design method was proposed based on body dimension to draw garment flats. The relations among human body, fl...

A medical quality electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is necessary for permanent monitoring, and an accurate heart examination can be obtained from instrumented underwear only if it is equipped with high-quality, flexible, textile-based electrodes guaranteeing low contact resistance with the skin. The main objective of this article is to develop reliabl...

The miniaturized, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) encapsulated, reliable, and fully washable system composed of three textile stretchable electrodes and connected electronic module is designed, realized, and integrated to a sportswear. The electronic module is specifically developed and made on a flexible print circuit board in order to facilitate its...

The evolution of wearable electronics from bulky electronic parts strapped in place, to miniaturized systems integrated onto the textile substrate has been facilitated by the development of textile transmission lines. Nevertheless, textiles used in clothing are subject to cleaning/ care treatments, which can have a detrimental effect on the transmi...

As the successful implantation of CAD (computer-aided-design) technology in garment industry, the 3D virtual garment technology has attracted a great attention of textile/garment companies. However, wearer's perception on virtual garment in terms of fitting and comfort has never been systematically studied. In this paper, we propose an original cus...

Presently, garment fit evaluation mainly focuses on real try-on, and rarely deals with virtual try-on. With the rapid development of E-commerce, there is a profound growth of garment purchases through the internet. In this context, fit evaluation of virtual garment try-on is vital in the clothing industry. In this paper, we propose a Naive Bayes-ba...

In this paper, the washability of wearable textronic (textile-electronic) devices has been studied. Two different approaches aiming at designing, producing, and testing robust washable and reliable smart textile systems are presented. The common point of the two approaches is the use of flexible conductive PCB in order to interface the miniaturized...