Abstract
The evolution of wearable technologies has led to the development of novel types of sensors customized for a wide range of applications. Wearable sensors need to possess a low form factor and be ergonomic, causing minimal impediment of the user's natural movement. Various principles have been explored to meet these requirements, ranging from optical, magnetic, resistive flex sensing to 3D printed sensors and liquid metals such as those using eutectic gallium-indium. However, manufacturing techniques for most current wearable sensors tend to be complex and difficult to scale. Challenges also exist in achieving high sensitivity with noise resistance and robustness to false detections, especially in capacitive sensors. In this research, a novel ultralow-latency soft tactile and pressure sensor developed using off-the-shelf e-textiles is proposed, which overcomes some of these limitations. The sensor does not use any specialized equipment or materials for manufacture. A human-in-loop (HIL) sensing technique is demonstrated, which provides high sensitivity, high sensing bandwidth, as well as ultralow latency, which makes it ideal as a wearable input device. In addition, the HIL method provides other advantages such as high noise rejection and resistance to accidental triggers that could be caused by other humans or environmental factors owing to its high signal to noise ratio. Finally, two applications-a wearable keyboard and gaming input device-were demonstrated using these sensors.
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