Development of whisker inspired 3D multi-material printed flexible tactile sensors

Bram Eijking; Remco Sanders; Gijs Krijnen

doi:10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233952

Development of whisker inspired 3D multi-material printed flexible tactile sensors

Bram Eijking, Remco Sanders, Gijs Krijnen

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Abstract

In this paper a bio-inspired tactile whisker sensor made by 3D printing is discussed. Whisker inspired sensors were printed using flexible dielectric and conductive thermoplastic poly-urethane (TPU). The conductive TPU is used for strain-gauges facilitating resistive read-out. A single whisker sensor contains two strain-gauges allowing to determine both the force acting on the whisker as well as the contact point on the whisker. To the best of our knowledge this is the first work on 3D multimaterial printed, flexible, whisker inspired tactile sensors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE SENSORS 2017
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-1012-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233952
Publication status	Published - 21 Dec 2017
Event	16th IEEE Sensors 2017 - Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 29 Oct 2017 → 1 Nov 2017 Conference number: 16 http://ieee-sensors2017.org/

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Conference	16th IEEE Sensors 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	29/10/17 → 1/11/17
Internet address	http://ieee-sensors2017.org/

Keywords

3d multimaterial printing
Elastomer
Fused Deposition Modeling
Tactile sensor
TPU
TST-Life like

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