IST-2001-39262
ARIANNE
Feasibility study of yARns and fabrIcs with ANNexed Electronic functions

ARIANNE is an assessment project of the IST-FET V framework program

Objective:
The project aims to assess the feasibility of yarns endowed with electronic functions, and, as a consequence, the properties of fabrics made-up with such yarns. The feasibility evaluation concerns several aspects: on one hand, those concerning materials and technologies employed to obtain such yarns; on the other hand, their electrical model which allows to consider yarns as elements of a "textile circuit", the fabric. Finally, electronic transfer function of fabrics with different yarn topologies are evaluated. The research idea to assess has considerable fallouts in a number of fields, such as biomedicine, telecommunication, rehabilitation, sport performance monitoring, virtual reality, where there is an increasing demand for portable, fully automated, easy-to-use, remote controllable, electronic systems. Electronic yarns will allow the development of a new generation of portable, wearable electronic systems.