Compared with rigid robots, soft robots are inherently compliant and have advantages in the
tasks requiring flexibility and safety. But sensing the high dimensional body deformation of …

Robots can be used, among a broad variety of different applications, in the textile industry to
fulfill mechanically challenging tasks which common automats are not capable of. On the …

Tactile information is crucial for recognizing physical interactions, manipulation of an object,
and motion planning for a robotic gripper; however, concurrent tactile technologies have …

Soft robots should move in an unstructured environment and explore it and, to do so, they
should be able to measure and distinguish proprioceptive and exteroceptive stimuli. This …

Mechanoreception, the ability of robots to detect mechanical stimuli from the internal and
external environments, contributes significantly to improving safety and task performance …

Many achievements for soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are made in the structure design
and application demonstration. However, few studies focus on their mechanical sensing …

Sensitivity and linearity are two key parameters of flexible strain sensors. Although the
introduction of microstructures (eg, channel crack inspired by the geometry of the spider's slit …

Highly stretchable and capacitance-based strain sensors were fabricated utilizing highly
stretchable silicone elastomer as dielectric film sandwiched between the conducting and …

Directional force sensing is an intrinsic feature of tactile sensing. As technologies of
exploratory robots evolve, with special emphasis on the emergence of soft robotics, it is …

This paper presents a novel wireless inductive sensing technology to measure body
deformation of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs). The proposed technology exploits a …