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Optimal design and experiments of a wearable silicone strain sensor

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Abstract

Motion capture of human body potentially holds great significance for exoskeleton robots, human-computer interaction, sports and rehabilitation research. Dielectric Elastomer Sensors (DESs) are excellent candidates for wearable human motion capture system because of their intrinsic characteristics of softness, lightweight and compliance. Fabrication process of the DES was developed, but a very few of optimal design is mentioned. To get greater measurement precision, in this paper, some optimization criteria was put forward and validated by some experiments. As a practical example, the sensor was mounted on the wrist to measure joint rotation. The experiment results indicated that there is a roughly linear relationship between the output voltage and the joint angle. Therefore, the DES can be applied to motion capture of human body.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 10th International Conference, ICIRA 2017, Proceedings
EditorsHonghai Liu, YongAn Huang, Hao Wu, Zhouping Yin
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages130-137
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783319652979
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 16 Aug 201718 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10464 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period16/08/1718/08/17

Keywords

  • Dielectric elastomer sensor
  • Joint angle measurement
  • Optimal design

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