TY  - JOUR
A1  - George Thuruthel, T
A1  - Bosman, AW
A1  - Hughes, J
A1  - Iida, F
KW  - soft robotic sensors; self-healing sensors; fluidic sensing; damage detection
JF  - Sensors
PB  - MDPI AG
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248284
SN  - 1424-8220
N2  - Self-healing sensors have the potential to increase the lifespan of existing sensing technologies, especially in soft robotic and wearable applications. Furthermore, they could bestow additional functionality to the sensing system because of their self-healing ability. This paper presents the design for a self-healing sensor that can be used for damage detection and localization in a continuous manner. The soft sensor can recover full functionality almost instantaneously at room temperature, making the healing process fully autonomous. The working principle of the sensor is based on the measurement of air pressure inside enclosed chambers, making the fabrication and the modeling of the sensors easy. We characterize the force sensing abilities of the proposed sensor and perform damage detection and localization over a one-dimensional and two-dimensional surface using multilateration techniques. The proposed solution is highly scalable, easy-to-build, cheap and even applicable for multi-damage detection.
ID  - discovery10159254
IS  - 24
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
AV  - public
Y1  - 2021/12/02/
VL  - 21
TI  - Soft self-healing fluidic tactile sensors with damage detection and localization abilities
ER  -