FoamSense: Design of Three Dimensional Soft Sensors with Porous Materials

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FoamSense measures compressed, bent, twisted and sheared states by dip-coating porous foam with conductive ink and wiring the surface with conductive glue; resistance falls steeply at small deformation as pores close and becomes roughly linear after pores collapse. Prototype forms include cut sponge sensors in a doll arm, a neck pillow controller and a sponge “sword,” and a 3D-printed porous silicone with anisotropic holes that tunes directional response; current limits are ~1–2 cm spatial resolution, sensor variability and material fatigue requiring calibration or ML.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:23Softness
3. 1:00Deformation Detection
4. 2:56FoamSense
5. 3:22Demonstration
6. 3:59Manufacturing Process
7. 4:41Application Examples
8. 5:15Preparation
9. 5:35Contributions
10. 6:10Design Process
11. 6:58Digestibility Graph
12. 7:49Optical Microscope
13. 8:12Porous Materials
14. 9:39Patterning Technique
15. 10:41Example
16. 11:10Digital Fabrication
17. 11:53FoamSense Example
18. 13:10Material Libraries
19. 13:29Limitations
20. 14:58Flexible Interface
21. 16:23Message
22. 16:43Challenges
23. 18:52Reproducibility
24. 19:57Future work