Live demonstration: energy autonomous electronic skin for robotics

Carlos García Núñez, William Taube, Xiangpeng Liang, Ravinder Dahiya

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Abstract

An electronic skin (e-skin) is an artificial smart skin that can provide similar sense of touch to robots and artificial prostheses by mimicking some of the features of human skin. In this regard, tactile e-skin is needed for accurate haptic perception in robots, amputees, as well as, wearable electronics. For example, a flexible e-skin provided with touch/pressure sensors will allow robots to detect the strength and location of the pressure exerted on the skin surface by surrounding objects. Energy autonomy, or also called self-powering, is also a critical feature for an e-skin, enabling portability and longer operation times without human intervention. Further, making the e-skin transparent adds an extra dimension in the functional design space of e-skin, allowing the integration of a solar cell underneath the skin while preserving light energy harvesting. Recent advances in photovoltaics are oriented towards the development of solar cells on stretchable/flexible substrates which will benefit the realization of suggested self-powered technology. Accordingly, the novel approach presented in this demo consists in a vertical layered stack structure, comprising a solar cell attached to the back plane of a transparent tactile skin, where e-skin transparency being a crucial feature that allows light pass through, making the building-block unique, and opening a new promising line of energy autonomous devices for portable flexible electronics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE Sensors Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages1
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5090-1012-7
ISBN (Print)978-1-5090-1013-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes

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    Manjakkal, L., García Núñez, C. & Dahiya, R., 9 Apr 2019, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing: 2019, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XI. Baltimore: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Vol. 10982. 109821K. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 10982).

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