Designing and Application of Wearable Fatigue Detection System Based on Multimodal Physiological Signals

Judging mental fatigue can be guided by acquiring and analyzing various physiological data. However, the existing equipment focuses on single physiological signals, such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG), which ignores the preponderance of multimodal physiological signals in fatigue states. Alternatively, some equipment is difficult to operate and thus unsuitable for portable applications. To this end, this paper details the design of a miniaturized multi-physiological signal acquisition system. The system not only acquires EEG and ECG based on combining wavelet transform with Kalman filter, but also uses precise temperature sensors to synchronously acquire proximal skin temperature signals which are not easily interfered with by environmental noise or other physiological signals of human body. Through a fatigue assessment experiment on ten healthy subjects, it was verified that our equipment reliably detects mental fatigue states by monitoring and analyzing EEG, ECG, and proximal skin temperature data. In actual applications, this system appears to the traits of easy operation and good stability. It provides better hardware support for the pervasive applications and concrete implementation of mental health in multi-scene, and can popularize use.