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Stretchable Tactile and Bio-potential Sensors for Human-Machine Interaction: A Review

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Human machine interaction (HMI) technologies have been widely applied to the fields of the complicated task assignment, biological health monitoring, prosthesis techniques, and clinical medicine. In this paper, different kinds of HMI modes are reviewed, such as tactile sensors, biological sensors, and multi-sensory data. Stretchable electronics integrated with multi-function sensors on the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate are laminated onto the skin surface for collecting temperature, strain, pressure, biological signals simultaneously. More conformable and natural human-machine interaction methods would be realized, which will provide effective ways for human-robot interaction similar to human-to-human interaction, and finally drive the development of the coexisting-cooperative-cognitive robot (Tri-Co Robot) technology.

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Acknowledgement

The authors also acknowledge supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51635007), Program for HUST Academic Frontier Youth Team, and Special Project of Technology Innovation of Hubei Province. (2017AAA002). The authors would like to thank Flexible Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory in Comprehensive Experiment Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Equipment Technology.

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  1. School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, 330013, China

    Wentao Dong

  2. State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    YongAn Huang, Zhouping Yin & Jiankui Chen

  3. Flexible Electronics Research Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    YongAn Huang, Zhouping Yin & Jiankui Chen

  4. Department of Laboratory and Facility Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Yuyu Zhou

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  3. University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

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Dong, W., Huang, Y., Yin, Z., Zhou, Y., Chen, J. (2018). Stretchable Tactile and Bio-potential Sensors for Human-Machine Interaction: A Review. In: Chen, Z., Mendes, A., Yan, Y., Chen, S. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10984. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97586-3_14

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