Soft sensors for a sensing-actuation system with high bladder voiding efficiency. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Helping a dysfunctional bladder in micturition requires a system capable of both fullness detection and complete emptying. Sensing-actuation systems can assist a bladder with lost sensation and weak muscle control.
Arab Hassani F +4 more
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Advances in Liquid Metal-Enabled Flexible and Wearable Sensors
Micromachines, 2020 Sensors are core elements to directly obtain information from surrounding objects for further detecting, judging and controlling purposes. With the rapid development of soft electronics, flexible sensors have made considerable progress, and can better ...
Yi Ren, Xuyang Sun, Jing Liu
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A Miniature Soft Sensor with Origami-Inspired Self-Folding Parallel Mechanism
Micromachines, 2022 Miniature soft sensors are crucial for the perception of soft robots. Although centimeter-scale sensors have been well developed, very few works addressed millimeter-scale, three-dimensional-shaped soft sensors capable of measuring multi-axis forces.
Yongqi Shi +8 more
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A Review of 3D‐Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Sensors: Research Challenges and Opportunities
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 The soft robotics field is changing the way people think, build, interact, and most importantly perceive robots. Robots have long been perceived as machines made of metals that their sole purpose is to perform repetitive tasks in isolated environments ...
Charbel Tawk, Gursel Alici
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Soft Mechanosensing via 3D Printing: A review
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Recently, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), is emerging as a unique tool to fabricate soft mechanical sensors. Advanced performances can be obtained owing to the inherent 3D structures that enable enhanced and anisotropic deformations, to the ...
Diana Cafiso +3 more
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Nanostructured materials for soft robotics - sensors and actuators
, 2022 S.147-156The advances in nanotechnology during the past two decades have led to several breakthroughs in material sciences. Ongoing and future tasks are related to the transfer of the unique properties of nanostructured materials to the macroscopic ...
Kolaric, Ivica +2 more
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Soft sensor based on Gaussian process regression and its application in erythromycin fermentation process [PDF]
Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly, 2016 Erythromycin fermentation process is a typical microbial fermentation process. Soft sensors can be used to estimate biomass of Erythromycin fermentation process for their relative low cost, simple development, and ability to predict difficult-to-
Mei Congli +5 more
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Length Modelling of Spiral Superficial Soft Strain Sensors Using Geodesics and Covering Spaces
, 2023 Piecewise constant curvature soft actuators can generate various types of movements. These actuators can undergo extension, bending, rotation, twist, or a combination of these.
He Kong +3 more
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Design Considerations for 3D Printed, Soft, Multimaterial Resistive Sensors for Soft Robotics
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 Sensor design for soft robots is a challenging problem because of the wide range of design parameters (e.g., geometry, material, actuation type, etc.) critical to their function.
Benjamin Shih +6 more
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Textile-based wearable sensors for assisting sports performance [PDF]
, 2009 There is a need for wearable sensors to assess physiological signals and body kinematics during exercise. Such sensors need to be straightforward to use, and ideally the complete system integrated fully within a garment.
Dermot Diamond +10 more
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