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Ionic flexible sensors have shown broad application prospects in wearable devices, special environmental monitoring and intelligent human-computer interaction. As a typical kind of ionic flexible sensor, ionic polymer (IPMC) metal composite can response to stimuli like bending, pressure, humidity and so on. However, the current researches about pressure sensing of IPMC mainly considers that IPMC is in full contact with the object, but how the characteristics of the contact object affect the pressure sensing performance of IPMC have not been revealed. In this paper, we studied the influence of different contact characteristics on the pressure sensing signal of IPMC by designing a series of contact objects with cone, prism and planar structures through 3D printing. Then the pressure sensing process were simulated in multi-physical fields based on Zhu’s model to verify the experimental results. The conclusion may provide a potential for the identification of different contact characteristics using ionic flexible sensors.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51975184), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFB1312900). The authors gratefully acknowledge the supports.
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Tang, G., Zhao, X., Ji, Y., Zhao, C., Mei, D., Wang, Y. (2023). Influence of Contact Characteristics on Pressure Sensing of IPMC Sensors. In: Yang, H., et al. Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14267. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6483-3_11
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