Design of a Large-scale Three-dimensional Flexible Arrayed Tactile Sensor

This paper proposes a new type of large-scale three-dimensional flexible arrayed tactile sensor based on conductive rubber. It can used to detect three-dimensional force information on the continuous surface of the sensor, which realizes a true skin type tactile sensor. The widely used method of liquid rubber injection molding (LIMS) method is used for "the overall injection molding" sample preparation. The structure details of staggered nodes and a new decoupling algorithm of force analysis are given. Simulation results show that the sensor based on this structure can achieve flexible measurement of large-scale 3-D tactile sensor arrays.

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