Vladan Koncar Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Fashion, Design, Fashion market
Ecole Nationale Sup
Vladan Koncar is Distinguished Professor at ENSAIT (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles) textile engineering institute in Roubaix, France – at University of Lille. He obtained his PhD in 1991 at the University of Lille in Villeneuve d’Ascq.
From November 2009 to November 2015 he was Head of Research at ENSAIT and Director of GEMTEX research laboratory. Professor Koncar was AUTEX (Association of Universities for Textiles, www.autex.org) President from June 2007 to June 2010.
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Author(s): Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Sébastien Thomassey, Cédric Cochrane and Vladan Koncar
This article describes an intelligent carpet for human footstep detection and tracking. The carpet consists of textile based piezoresistive layer sandwiched between crossed conductive wires to make pressure sensor grids or pixels inside the carpet. Further, a preliminary noise filtering and signal extraction have been demonstrated by means of data analysis and statistical interpolation of signals (pressure based resistance change) obtained from the carpet.
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