Journal
EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages 47-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2015.09.005
Keywords
Stretchable sensors; Soft robotics; PneuNets; Hydrogels; Ionic liquids
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-15-1-0160]
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE-1144153]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1120296]
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Human skin contains highly specialized deformation receptors that allow us to intuitively and effortlessly interpret our surroundings. These sensors help us to localize touch and determine the degree of contact pressure. In addition, the innate understanding of our own body posture is also due to these mechanoreceptors. This work demonstrates a synthetic sensory-motor analog that can be 3D printed, using direct ink writing (DIW) onto soft, fluidic elastomer actuators (FEAs). This 3D printing technique uses two inks - one that is an ionically conductive hydrogel and another that is an electrically insulating silicone - which is then patterned and photopolymerized into stretchable capacitive sensors. In this paper, these sensors are used to enable tactile sensing and kinesthetic feedback in a pneumatically actuated haptic device. This capacitive skin enabled the device to detect a compressive force from a finger press of similar to 2 N, and an internal pressurization of as low as similar to 10 kPa. c 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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