Large-area soft e-skin: The challenges beyond sensor designs

R Dahiya, N Yogeswaran, F Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensory feedback from touch is critical for many tasks carried out by robots and humans,
such as grasping objects or identifying materials. Electronic skin (e-skin) is a crucial …

Tactile sensing—from humans to humanoids

RS Dahiya, G Metta, M Valle… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Starting from human¿ sense of touch,¿ this paper reviews the state of tactile sensing in
robotics. The physiology, coding, and transferring tactile data and perceptual importance of …

Self-powered, ultrasensitive, flexible tactile sensors based on contact electrification

G Zhu, WQ Yang, T Zhang, Q Jing, J Chen, YS Zhou… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Tactile/touch sensing is essential in developing human-machine interfacing and electronic
skins for areas such as automation, security, and medical care. Here, we report a self …

Directions toward effective utilization of tactile skin: A review

RS Dahiya, P Mittendorfer, M Valle… - IEEE Sensors …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wide variety of tactile (touch) sensors exist today for robotics and related applications.
They make use of various transduction methods, smart materials and engineered structures …

Flexible piezoelectric tactile sensor array for dynamic three-axis force measurement

P Yu, W Liu, C Gu, X Cheng, X Fu - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
A new flexible piezoelectric tactile sensor array based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film
is proposed for measuring three-axis dynamic contact force distribution. The array consists …

New materials and advances in making electronic skin for interactive robots

N Yogeswaran, W Dang, WT Navaraj… - Advanced …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Flexible electronics has huge potential to bring revolution in robotics and prosthetics as well
as to bring about the next big evolution in electronics industry. In robotics and related …

From dual-mode triboelectric nanogenerator to smart tactile sensor: a multiplexing design

T Li, J Zou, F Xing, M Zhang, X Cao, N Wang… - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) can be applied for the next generation of artificial
intelligent products, where skin-like tactile sensing advances the ability of robotics to feel …

Electrical impedance tomography for artificial sensitive robotic skin: A review

D Silvera-Tawil, D Rye, M Soleimani… - IEEE Sensors …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a nondestructive imaging technique used to
estimate the internal conductivity distribution of a conductive domain by taking potential …

Soft eSkin: distributed touch sensing with harmonized energy and computing

M Soni, R Dahiya - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Inspired by biology, significant advances have been made in the field of electronic skin
(eSkin) or tactile skin. Many of these advances have come through mimicking the …

[HTML][HTML] Piezoelectric graphene field effect transistor pressure sensors for tactile sensing

N Yogeswaran, WT Navaraj, S Gupta, F Liu… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) based pressure sensors for
tactile sensing. The sensing device comprises GFET connected with a piezoelectric metal …