Reviews of wearable healthcare systems: Materials, devices and system integration

Z Lou, L Wang, K Jiang, Z Wei, G Shen - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wearable health monitoring systems are considered as the next generation of personal
portable devices for telemedicine practice. These systems are based on monitoring different …

Recent advances in biomimetic soft robotics: Fabrication approaches, driven strategies and applications

X Dong, X Luo, H Zhao, C Qiao, J Li, J Yi, L Yang… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared to traditional rigid-bodied robots, soft robots are constructed using physically
flexible/elastic bodies and electronics to mimic nature and enable novel applications in …

[HTML][HTML] A review of printable flexible and stretchable tactile sensors

KS Kumar, PY Chen, H Ren - Research, 2019 - spj.science.org
Flexible and stretchable tactile sensors that are printable, nonplanar, and dynamically
morphing are emerging to enable proprioceptive interactions with the unstructured …

Research progress on the application of inkjet printing technology combined with hydrogels

Y Wu, Y Zhang, M Yan, G Hu, Z Li, W He, X Wang… - Applied Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inkjet printing technology is a convenient, high-speed, and high-precision manufacturing
tool, capable of achieving precise printing at both micro and nano scales. Composite …

Stretchable and sensitive silver nanowire-hydrogel strain sensors for proprioceptive actuation

KS Kumar, L Zhang, MS Kalairaj… - … applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Safer human–robot interactions mandate the adoption of proprioceptive actuation. Strain
sensors can detect the deformation of tools and devices in unstructured and capricious …

Origami-layer-jamming deployable surgical retractor with variable stiffness and tactile sensing

H Banerjee, TK Li, G Ponraj… - Journal of …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Origami-based flexible, compliant, and bio-inspired robots are believed to permit a range of
medical applications within confined environments. In this article, we experimentally …

Stretchable capacitive pressure sensing sleeve deployable onto catheter balloons towards continuous intra-abdominal pressure monitoring

K Senthil Kumar, Z Xu, M Sivaperuman Kalairaj… - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is closely correlated with intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH)
and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) diagnoses, indicating the need for continuous …

An atlas for the inkjet printing of large-area tactile sensors

G Baldini, A Albini, P Maiolino, G Cannata - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review aims to discuss the inkjet printing technique as a fabrication method for the
development of large-area tactile sensors. The paper focuses on the manufacturing …

Design and testing of a new force-sensing cell microinjector based on soft flexure mechanism

Y Wei, Q Xu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell microinjection plays an important role in biological and medical fields. As compared
with manual cell microinjection and position-based robotic cell microinjection, force-assisted …

Mathematical model and experimental characterization of vertically stacked capacitive tactile sensors

G Baldini, M Staiano, F Grella, M Frascio… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capacitive sensors are widely used in robotics for their compactness, high resolution, high
sensitivity, and large dynamic range. In this article, we present a design solution for the …