title: A wearable mobile sensor platform to assist fruit grading.
abstract: Wearable computing is a form of ubiquitous computing that offers flexible and useful tools for users. Specifically, glove-based systems have been used in the last 30 years in a variety of applications, but mostly focusing on sensing people's attributes, such as finger bending and heart rate. In contrast, we propose in this work a novel flexible and reconfigurable instrumentation platform in the form of a glove, which can be used to analyze and measure attributes of fruits by just pointing or touching them with the proposed glove. An architecture for such a platform is designed and its application for intuitive fruit grading is also presented, including experimental results for several fruits.
authors.affiliation: NatalNet Laboratory, Technology Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, RN, Brazil. rafaelaroca@ieee.org
authors.forename: Rafael V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Aroca
authors.forename: Rafael B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.forename: Rummennigue R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Dantas
authors.forename: Adonai G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Calbo
authors.forename: Luiz M G
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D005385:Fingers; D005638:Fruit / Q000737:chemistry*; D017575:Gloves, Protective; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D011312:Pressure; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*