Abstract
In this paper, a novel artificial skin sensor model with special structure based on the flexibility of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and the piezoresistive effect of Poly Vinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) piezoelectric fiber is proposed to solve the problems of structure design and complicated manufacturing process of skin sensor sensitive units. It has excellent piezoelectric effect and can detect the external force efficiently and precisely. The finite element analysis technology is used to simulate the deformation of the novel artificial skin sensor under external force from different aspects. Firstly, the crossing-mesh sensitive unit model and the three-layer configuration with three-layer of the artificial skin sensor are designed. Secondly, the external forces are applied to the sensitive units with different diameters by finite element analysis, and the sensitive unit with optimum diameter is figured out for the novel artificial skin sensor. After that, with the optimum sensitive unit, the performance of the artificial skin sensor model with the optimum sensitive unit is specifically simulated when it’s subjected to different stress. Finally, through seriously analyzing the experiment results, the mapping relationship between the deformation of the artificial skin sensor and the external force is obtained. Experiment results demonstrate that the novel artificial skin sensor has high sensitivity, not only can truly reflect the approximate linear relationship between sensor deformation and external load, but also can accurately detect the magnitude of external force applied to the sensor.
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