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A Wearable Pressure Sensor Based on the Array of Polymeric Piezoelectric Fiber with Metal Core

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A wearable pressure sensor is developed based on the array of polymeric piezoelectric fiber with metal core covered by beta phase poly(vinylidene fluoride) layer. Each fiber consists of a polyester-imide enameled copper core, a piezoelectric layer and sputtered gold electrode. Fiber array is fixed on an insulating substrate and well packaged to ensure stable work. This pressure sensor is tested to declare high sensitivity and fast response. Meanwhile, flexibility of this structure indicates its potentiality to be wearable.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (2011CB013303), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51521064) and the Applied Research Project of Public Welfare Technology of Zhejiang Province (2015C31109).

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University, Zheda Rd. 38, Hangzhou, China

    Ran Chen, Weiting Liu, Xiaodong Ruan & Xin Fu

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  1. Tokyo Metropolitan University , Tokyo, Japan

    Naoyuki Kubota

  2. Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan

    Kazuo Kiguchi

  3. University of Portsmouth , Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    Honghai Liu

  4. Tokyo Metropolitan University , Tokyo, Japan

    Takenori Obo

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Chen, R., Liu, W., Ruan, X., Fu, X. (2016). A Wearable Pressure Sensor Based on the Array of Polymeric Piezoelectric Fiber with Metal Core. In: Kubota, N., Kiguchi, K., Liu, H., Obo, T. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43518-3_12

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