An Ultrasensitive 3D Printed Tactile Sensor for Soft Robotics

Saeb Mousavi; David Howard; Shuying Wu; Chun Wang

An Ultrasensitive 3D Printed Tactile Sensor for Soft Robotics

Applied Physics 2018-10-23 v1

Authors: Saeb Mousavi , David Howard , Shuying Wu , Chun Wang

Abstract

A new method is presented to manufacture piezoresistive tactile sensors using fused deposition modelling (FDM)printing technology with two different filaments made of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polylactic acid-graphene (PLA-G) composite. The sensor shows very high sensitivity (gauge factor~550) and excellent recovery to bending-induced strain and can detect a wide range of pressures. This new technology opens the door for 3D printing soft robotic parts capable of tactile communications.

Keywords

sensors and measurement microfluidics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.09236,
  title  = {An Ultrasensitive 3D Printed Tactile Sensor for Soft Robotics},
  author = {Saeb Mousavi and David Howard and Shuying Wu and Chun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09236},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Poster presentation paper at ICRA2018 Workshop on Self-healing, Growing and Evolving Soft Robots

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