Intrinsic Embedded Sensors for Polymeric Mechatronics: Flexure and Force Sensing

While polymeric fabrication processes, including recent advances in additive manufacturing, have revolutionized manufacturing, little work has been done on effective sensing elements compatible with and embedded within polymeric structures. In this paper, we describe the development and evaluation o...

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Autores principales: Jentoft, Leif P., Dollar, Aaron M., Wagner, Christopher R., Howe, Robert D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24573310
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140303861
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author Jentoft, Leif P.
Dollar, Aaron M.
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description While polymeric fabrication processes, including recent advances in additive manufacturing, have revolutionized manufacturing, little work has been done on effective sensing elements compatible with and embedded within polymeric structures. In this paper, we describe the development and evaluation of two important sensing modalities for embedding in polymeric mechatronic and robotic mechanisms: multi-axis flexure joint angle sensing utilizing IR phototransistors, and a small (12 mm), three-axis force sensing via embedded silicon strain gages with similar performance characteristics as an equally sized metal element based sensor.
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spelling pubmed-40039192014-04-29 Intrinsic Embedded Sensors for Polymeric Mechatronics: Flexure and Force Sensing Jentoft, Leif P. Dollar, Aaron M. Wagner, Christopher R. Howe, Robert D. Sensors (Basel) Article While polymeric fabrication processes, including recent advances in additive manufacturing, have revolutionized manufacturing, little work has been done on effective sensing elements compatible with and embedded within polymeric structures. In this paper, we describe the development and evaluation of two important sensing modalities for embedding in polymeric mechatronic and robotic mechanisms: multi-axis flexure joint angle sensing utilizing IR phototransistors, and a small (12 mm), three-axis force sensing via embedded silicon strain gages with similar performance characteristics as an equally sized metal element based sensor. MDPI 2014-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4003919/ /pubmed/24573310 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140303861 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Intrinsic Embedded Sensors for Polymeric Mechatronics: Flexure and Force Sensing
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24573310
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