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A highly flexible, stretchable and ultra-thin piezoresistive tactile sensor array using PAM/PEDOT:PSS hydrogel

  • Sungkyunkwan University

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Abstract

This paper presents a highly flexible, stretchable and ultrathin piezoresistive tactile sensor array, which can be attached to a tactile display actuator array [1] without any influence on its motion. Its operational principal is based on the resistance changing of a tactile cell array prepared by blending a precise conductive polymer-Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) with Polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogel. Through comparing the characteristics of the blended hydrogel mixed between PAM and PEDOT with different ratios 2.5:1; 3:1; 3.5:1 respectively, the 2.5:1 ratio is the appropriate sample selected as the sensor design. Then, the 12×8 tactile sensor array were fabricated by dropping the conductive hydrogel into the cavity of two electrodes cast on Sylgard 184 substrates (PDMS), which is flexible and thin-around 800μm thickness in total. Finally, a primary measuring circuit using Wheatstone Bridge with a low-pass filter, an amplifier, and a signal processing circuit are also built to demonstrate the sensor s performance successfully.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages950-955
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509030552
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Jul 2017
Event14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2017 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 28 Jun 2017 → 1 Jul 2017

Publication series

Name2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2017

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju
Period28/06/17 → 1/07/17

Keywords

  • PEDOT
  • Piezoresistive tactile sensor
  • Polyacrylamide hydrogel
  • PSS
  • tactile display actuator

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