Abstract:
Development of stretchable sensors has recently attracted significant attention in the field of robotics. It is promising to design an “invisible” and “feelingless” senso...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Development of stretchable sensors has recently attracted significant attention in the field of robotics. It is promising to design an “invisible” and “feelingless” sensor with stretchable capability. This paper presents a new method to fabricate a wearable stretchable sensor, which is relatively simpler than the existing manufacturing methods. The developed sensor has a sandwich structure consisting of two elastomer layers and one soft electrode layer in-between. By applying the new manufacturing method, the whole thickness of the stretchable sensor can be controlled to be less than 0.5mm. Carbon grease is employed as the resistance electrode and copper-tin fabric works as the wires. Due to the soft and stretchable nature, the developed sensor is effective in detecting motions of body joints. For verification, a stretchable skin-like glove with multiple sensors is fabricated as a palm-like measurement system to capture the motions of five fingers simultaneously. Experiments are performed to validate the performance of a single sensor and the integrated soft glove.
Date of Conference: 11-14 December 2017
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 05 February 2018
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Electronic ISSN: 2474-2325