Design and fabrication of soft artificial skin using embedded microchannels and liquid conductors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2711-2718

  Park, Yong Lae ^a   Chen, Bor Rong ^b   Wood, Robert J ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biosensics LLC   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial skin; eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn); pressure sensing; soft sensors; strain sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CASTING PROCESS; CHANNEL DIMENSION; CHANNEL PATTERN; CONDUCTIVE LIQUIDS; CONTACT PRESSURES; ELASTOMER MATRIX; EMBEDDED MICROCHANNELS; MANUFACTURING METHODS; MULTI-AXIS; MULTI-LAYERED; NON-LINEARITY; PRESSURE SENSING; SENSOR SIGNALS; SILICONE RUBBER; SOFT SENSORS; STRAIN SENSING;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE SENSORS; SILICONES;

STRAIN;

EID: 84862514369     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2200790     Document Type: Article

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