This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) to develop a novel wearable distributed metasurface antenna array for reliable and secure wireless body area networks. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include:
- Designing and integrating multiple low-profile, power-efficient wearable antennas into a distributed and adaptive on-body antenna array, using electronic textile technology.
- Developing a wearable metasurface transmission line to reduce on-body signal path loss and enable energy-efficient, secure communication between the on-body antennas.
- Investigating a coordinated wearable antenna array with dual frequency bands and reconfigurable operating modes to enhance transmission gain and mitigate attacks like eavesdropping and jamming.
- Exploring the dual use of the wearable antenna array for both wireless communication and sensing, enabling tracking of human body movement patterns using machine learning and AI.
- Integrating the metasurface transmission line and antennas into clothing that can withstand durability tests.
This project aims to advance the state of the art in on-body electromagnetic wave propagation, distributed antenna array design, and wireless security for wearable health monitoring applications. The award will also support the training of undergraduate and graduate students in these research areas.
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