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A thermally flexible and multi-site tactile sensor for remote 3D dynamic sensing imaging

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A flexible, multi-site tactile and thermal sensor (MTTS) based on polyvinylidene fluoride (resolution 50 50) is reported. It can be used to implement spatial mapping caused by tactile and thermal events and record the two-dimensional motion trajectory of a tracked target object. The output voltage and current signal are recorded as a mapping by sensing the external pressure and thermal radiation stimulus, and the response distribution is dynamically observed on the three-dimensional interface. Through the mapping relationship between the established piezoelectric and pyroelectric signals, the piezoelectric component and the pyroelectric component are effectively extracted from the composite signals. The MTTS has a good sensitivity for tactile and thermal detection, and the electrodes have good synchronism. In addition, the signal interference is less than 9.5% and decreases as the pressure decreases after the distance between adjacent sites exceeds 200 mm. The integration of MTTS and signal processing units has potential applications in human-machine interaction systems, health status detection and smart assistive devices.

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This work was supported by the Shandong Science and Technology Development Plan (No. GG201809230040), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61573202 and 11847135).

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266000, China

    Guoting Xia, Yinuo Huang, Liwei Li & Kai Wang

  2. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266000, China

    Fujiang Li

  3. College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China

    Licheng Wang

  4. Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Equipment for Biological Diagnosis and Therapy in Universities of Shandong, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (iAIR), Jinan University, Jinan, 250022, China

    Jinbo Pang

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Xia, G., Huang, Y., Li, F. et al. A thermally flexible and multi-site tactile sensor for remote 3D dynamic sensing imaging. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 14, 1039–1051 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-019-1901-5

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