I n this paper, we propose a new tactile sensory structure using integrated sensing elements what we call “tensor cell”. I t as located sparsely in a flexible body of tactile sensor, and samples there the complete information of stress tensor w,hich requires six degrees of freedom t o describe it. W e clarify first the advantage of this architecture theoretically based on the elastici t y theor...

Breast cancer screening using tactile imaging (TI) is an advancing field of low-cost noninvasive medical imaging. Utilizing arrays capacitive pressure transducers to perform a differential stress measurement suspicious tissue, TI has been shown be effective in measuring lesion size and stiffness, subsequent differentiation malignant benign conditions, repeated clinical studies. In order further...

The flexible tactile sensor has attracted widespread attention because of its great flexibility, high sensitivity, and large workable range. It can be integrated into clothing, electronic skin, or mounted on to human skin. Various nanostructured materials and nanocomposites with high flexibility and electrical performance have been widely utilized as functional materials in flexible tactile sen...

Human-friendly robots of new generation will require the sensor skin that is soft and covering the whole body [1]. But it would be very difficult to fabricate such a skin with the traditional technology[2,3,4], because placement and wiring of vast amount of sensor elements on the 3-dimensionally configured robot surface is laborious. In this paper we propose a novel method to fabricate such a t...