Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : Dynamics and Design Conference 2019
Date : August 27, 2019 - August 30, 2019
Machines made of compliant materials, such as soft robots and wearable devices often require to detect large strains for estimating and controlling their states and deformations. Highly stretchable strain sensors, especially those rely on reading the capacitive change as a function of strain, are a promising solution for the sensing of soft machines. In this contribution, a method to increase the sensitivity of capacitive strain sensors is described, which is to use auxetic structures. Sensor prototypes made of elastomeric materials are fabricated and tested. The result shows that the sensitivity can be improved by our method.
