RT Journal Article
T1 Insights into the Mechanical Behaviour of a Layered Flexible Tactile Sensor
A1 Castellanos-Ramos, Julián
A1 Navas-González, Rafael Jesús
A1 Fernández, Iván
A1 Vidal-Verdú, Fernando
K1 Polímeros conductores
AB This paper shows realizations of a piezoresistive tactile sensor with a low cost screen-printing technology. A few samples were fabricated for different materials used as insulator between the conductive layers and as top layer or cover. Both can be used to tune the sensitivity of the sensor. However, a large influence is also observed of the roughness at the contact interface on the sensitivity and linearity of the output, as well as on mismatching between the outputs from different taxels. The roughness at the contact interface is behind the transduction principle of the sensor, but it also limits its performance if the wavelength of the roughness is comparable or even longer than the size of the contacts. The paper shows experimental results that confirm this relationship and discusses its consequences in sensor response related to the materials chosen for the insulator and the cover. Moreover, simulations with FEA tools and with simple models are used to support the discussions and conclusions obtained from the experimental data. This provides insights into the sensor behaviour that are shared by other sensors based on the same principle.
PB MDPI Open Access Journal
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/10510
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/10510
LA eng
NO Sensors, 15 (10), pp. 25433-25462
NO This work has been funded by the Spanish Government and by the European ERDF program funds under contract TEC2012-38653
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026