TY - GEN
T1 - Pressure Sensitive Skin for Prosthetic Hands
T2 - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2020
AU - Jabban, L.
AU - Metcalfe, B.
AU - Zhang, D.
AU - Iravani, P.
PY - 2020/8/27
Y1 - 2020/8/27
N2 - The human hand is a vital component of our interaction with the environment, containing a large number of sensory receptors. The loss of a hand is, therefore, a serious and debilitating injury. Surveys have shown that 98% of users of upper limb prostheses desire to feel the level of force they apply through their prosthetic hands. Developments in tactile sensors have yielded many functional electronic skins. However, their complexity remains a barrier to their use in commercial prosthetic hands. This paper introduces a new design of a simple, flexible pressure sensor using carbon fibre tows as both the sensor and the electrodes. The design results in a dynamic pressure range of 0.35 to 280 kPa in a 25-by-25 mm prototype.
AB - The human hand is a vital component of our interaction with the environment, containing a large number of sensory receptors. The loss of a hand is, therefore, a serious and debilitating injury. Surveys have shown that 98% of users of upper limb prostheses desire to feel the level of force they apply through their prosthetic hands. Developments in tactile sensors have yielded many functional electronic skins. However, their complexity remains a barrier to their use in commercial prosthetic hands. This paper introduces a new design of a simple, flexible pressure sensor using carbon fibre tows as both the sensor and the electrodes. The design results in a dynamic pressure range of 0.35 to 280 kPa in a 25-by-25 mm prototype.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091002060&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176163
DO - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176163
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85091002060
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 4341
EP - 4344
BT - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - IEEE
Y2 - 20 July 2020 through 24 July 2020
ER -