Rotation sensing and gesture control of a robot joint via triboelectric quantization sensor

Pu, Xianjie; Guo, Hengyu; Tang, Qian; Chen, Jie; Feng, Li; Liu, Guanlin; Wang, Xue; Xi, Yi; Hu, Chenguo; Wang, Zhong Lin

doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.10.044

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“…The integration of this magnetoelectric elastomer sensor to a robotic arm can help the robot distinguish different types of subjects. The structure design of this self‐powered sensor would make a significance for future intelligent robot and machine learning …”

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Merkel's Disks Bioinspired Self‐Powered Flexible Magnetoelectric Sensors Toward the Robotic Arm's Tactile Perceptual Functioning and Smart Learning

Zhang

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Advanced Intelligent Systems

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Flexible/soft tactile sensors enable the robotic arms to gain real‐time mechanical responses, which are of utmost importance for future deep learning in robotic sciences and technologies. Learning from nature will inspire the advances of soft tactile sensors as mother nature is proficient in achieving unique functionality at the simplest construction. Herein, the fabrication of self‐powered soft tactile sensors is reported. The shape of flexible sensors mimics Merkel's disks, allowing for a well tactile perceptual functionality. Due to the use of flexible magnetoelectric materials, the sensors are self‐powered without external power supply. This unique functionality is explained by Maxwell's numerical simulation, allowing for further improvement of their performance by adjusting diverse fabrication factors. Furthermore, such self‐powered soft tactile sensors are attached to the tips of a robotic arm, enabling the arm to distinguish different objects after smart learning. The soft sensor design reported here is expected to manifest in a range of self‐powered sensing systems, opening up as yet unexplored avenues for the development and the exploitation of future intelligent robots and their deep learning.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merkel's Disks Bioinspired Self‐Powered Flexible Magnetoelectric Sensors Toward the Robotic Arm's Tactile Perceptual Functioning and Smart Learning

Zhang

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Advanced Intelligent Systems

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“…Delivery of electronic functionality to the human body using e‐textiles that are able to collect, process, store, transmit, and display information is important for realizing the future of wearable electronics . Moreover, e‐textiles can be a useful tool to generate and store energy, sense and respond to environmental stimuli, and even communicate with users, which will attract considerable research interest and enrich a wide range of application areas ranging from wearable power sources, multifunctional sensors, and healthcare monitoring to humanoid robotics and human–machine interfaces …”

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Fiber/Fabric‐Based Piezoelectric and Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Flexible/Stretchable and Wearable Electronics and Artificial Intelligence

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fields is breaking out, such as the Internet of Things (IoTs), big data, humanoid robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Nowadays, the rapid advancement of these functional electronic devices is transforming the way people communicate with each other and with their surroundings, which has integrated our world into an intelligent information network. Owing to that no electronics works without electricity, the processes of human informatization and intelligence depend on broad energy supplies and powerful power supports. In other words, electric power can be regarded as the flowing blood that keeps every components of the current society running normally and healthily. However, with the rapid consumption of conventional fossil fuels as well as the growing voice of environmental protection, the current energy structure and its supply status are facing unprecedented challenges. On the one hand, the overwhelming energy crisis and ecological deterioration have become huge bottlenecks restricting socioeconomic development.[1] Some serious situations may even worsen to the root of interstate interest conflicts or the disaster that threatens the survival of mankind. In this case, the transform of energy structure from scarce, pollution-prone, and irreproducible mineral resources to abundant, environmentally friendly, and renewable green energies is desperately required. On the other hand, the traditional centralized, immobile, and ordered energy supply patterns based on power plants are incompatible with the present development of functional electronics associated with individual person, which follows a general trend of miniaturization, portability, and low power. As the information age is coming, billions of things must be connected with sensors for various measurements, perceptions, controls, and data transmissions. [2] These mobile, human-oriented, randomly and massively distributed sensing networks also require the corresponding matched power supply system. Therefore, it turns out that the unreasonable energy structures as well as the mismatched supply pattern lead to the current development dilemma.Portable power supplies and self-powered systems are the most promising solutions for the above straits. For wearable power sources, one of the compromises is to choose small-size Integration of advanced nanogenerator technology with conventional textile processes fosters the emergence of textile-based nanogenerators (NGs), which will inevitably promote the rapid development and widespread applications of next-generation wearable electronics and multifaceted artificial intelligence systems. NGs endow smart textiles with mechanical energy harvesting and multifunctional self-powered sensing capabilities, while textiles provide a versatile flexible design carrier and extensive wearable application platform for their development. However, due to the lack of an effective interactive platform and communication channel between researchers specializing in NGs and those good at textiles, it is rather difficult to achieve fiber...

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“…With more and more distributed sensor nodes and functional units, interactions between human and machines are becoming inevitable and increasingly intimate in daily life, such as in the scenarios of healthcare, 238‐240 disabled aids, 241,242 robotics, 243‐245 entertainment, 246,247 gaming, 248 VR/AR, 219,249,250 and so on. As mentioned in the previous section, using self‐powered functional components in the whole system can effectively reduce the overall power consumption.…”

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Progress in wearable electronics/photonics—Moving toward the era of artificial intelligence and internet of things

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The past few years have witnessed the significant impacts of wearable electronics/photonics on various aspects of our daily life, for example, healthcare monitoring and treatment, ambient monitoring, soft robotics, prosthetics, flexible display, communication, human‐machine interactions, and so on. According to the development in recent years, the next‐generation wearable electronics and photonics are advancing rapidly toward the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT), to achieve a higher level of comfort, convenience, connection, and intelligence. Herein, this review provides an opportune overview of the recent progress in wearable electronics, photonics, and systems, in terms of emerging materials, transducing mechanisms, structural configurations, applications, and their further integration with other technologies. First, development of general wearable electronics and photonics is summarized for the applications of physical sensing, chemical sensing, human‐machine interaction, display, communication, and so on. Then self‐sustainable wearable electronics/photonics and systems are discussed based on system integration with energy harvesting and storage technologies. Next, technology fusion of wearable systems and AI is reviewed, showing the emergence and rapid development of intelligent/smart systems. In the last section of this review, perspectives about the future development trends of the next‐generation wearable electronics/photonics are provided, that is, toward multifunctional, self‐sustainable, and intelligent wearable systems in the AI/IoT era.

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Rotation sensing and gesture control of a robot joint via triboelectric quantization sensor

Cited by 222 publications

References 33 publications

Merkel's Disks Bioinspired Self‐Powered Flexible Magnetoelectric Sensors Toward the Robotic Arm's Tactile Perceptual Functioning and Smart Learning

Merkel's Disks Bioinspired Self‐Powered Flexible Magnetoelectric Sensors Toward the Robotic Arm's Tactile Perceptual Functioning and Smart Learning

Fiber/Fabric‐Based Piezoelectric and Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Flexible/Stretchable and Wearable Electronics and Artificial Intelligence

Progress in wearable electronics/photonics—Moving toward the era of artificial intelligence and internet of things

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