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随着计算机技术、通信技术与传感技术之间的深度渗透以及智能终端设备的日益普及,为可穿戴式传感器的研究提供了有力的技术支撑和广阔的市场前景,其应用领域涉及体育[1]、游戏[2]、医疗[3]和科研[4-5]等。具备触觉感知功能的可穿戴电子设备是当今的研究热点之一,触觉作为人体最大的感官系统,在信息交互和传感认知过程中具有重要的作用[6-8]。将触觉传感器集成于可穿戴设备实现对用户生理参数检测并快速、准确地做出健康评估,亦或是智能机器人通过穿戴这类柔性电子仿生皮肤可以更加灵活、全面地完成人机交互[9-10]。
触觉力感知为触觉传感器范畴中最常见的一种,为克服以硅基体或光电式等触觉力传感器存在柔性差、不易穿戴等缺点,填充型高分子柔性导电复合材料,尤其碳系填料,因具备加工性好、工艺简单、电阻率易于调节等优点在柔性电子仿生皮肤研究中得到广泛应用。炭黑具有价格低廉及良好的力学特性,碳纳米管因较大的长径比呈现较低的渗流阈值,被应用于力敏复合材料研究中。为进一步提升力敏传感器的穿戴舒适度和力学特性,本文将形状和尺寸各异的炭黑/碳纳米管两相填料并用填充硅橡胶(CB/CNTs/SR)制备力敏复合材料,提出了一种表面具有微圆顶阵列结构特点的柔性、可穿戴触觉传感器。
Research on the Design and Application of Flexible Tactile Sensor with Microdome Array Structures
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摘要: 以质量分数3%和2%的炭黑/碳纳米管填充硅橡胶为力敏复合导电材料,提出了一种微圆顶阵列结构的柔性触觉传感器。阐述了微圆顶阵列结构触觉传感器的结构特点、制备流程及微观表征,并结合ANSYS有限元分析软件分析其触觉感知机理。研究该微圆顶阵列结构柔性触觉传感单元的力敏特性,并将其应用于足底压力分布感知。测试结果表明,该微圆顶阵列结构柔性触觉传感器具备良好的力敏特性和穿戴舒适性,为柔性可穿戴触觉传感器提供了一种设计方案。Abstract: The silicone rubber filled with mass fraction of 3% carbon and 2% of carbon nanotubes was used as the force sensitive conductive composite materials. A flexible tactile sensor with microdome array structures is proposed in this paper. The structure characteristics, fabrication process and micro characterization of the tactile sensor with microdome array structures are researched, and the tactile perception mechanism is also revealed with ANSYS finite element analysis software. The force sensitive characteristic of the microdome array structures flexible tactile is studied and the application of plantar pressure distribution perception is illustrated. The experimental results indicate that the microdome array structures flexible tactile has good force-sensitive property and wearing comfort, and it provides a design proposal for flexible wearable tactile sensor.
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Key words:
- conductive composites /
- foot plantar pressure /
- microdome arrays /
- tactile sensor /
- wearable
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