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Sensor Made of Eutectogel

Modular Soft Sensor Made of Eutectogel and Its Application in Gesture Recognition


Soft sensors are designed to be flexible, making them ideal for wearable devices as they can conform to the human body during motion, capturing pertinent information effectively. However, once these wearable sensors are constructed, modifying them is not straightforward without undergoing a re-prototyping process. In this study, we introduced a novel design for a modular soft sensor unit (M2SU) that incorporates a short, wire-shaped sensory structure made of eutectogel, with magnetic blocks at both ends. This design facilitates the easy assembly and reversible integration of the sensor directly onto a wearable device in situ. Leveraging the piezoresistive properties of eutectogel and the dual conductive and magnetic characteristics of neodymium magnets, our sensor unit acts as both a sensing element and a modular component.

To explore the practical application of M2SUs in wearable sensing, we equipped a glove with 8 M2SUs. We evaluated its performance across three common gesture recognition tasks: numeric keypad typing (Task 1), symbol drawing (Task 2), and uppercase letter writing (Task 3). Employing a 1D convolutional neural network to analyze the collected data, we achieved task-specific accuracies of 80.43% (Top 3: 97.68%) for Task 1, 88.58% (Top 3: 96.13%) for Task 2, and 79.87% (Top 3: 91.59%) for Task 3. These results confirm that our modular soft sensor design can facilitate high-accuracy gesture recognition on wearable devices through straightforward, in situ assembly.

We present a novel approach to building a modular soft sensor unit (M2SU). The short, wire-shaped sensory structure made of eutectogel, with magnetic blocks at both ends, facilitates the reversible integration of the sensor directly onto a wearable device in situ. The M2SU exhibits excellent piezoresistive response to motion-induced stretching and flexibility in reconfiguring sensor layouts in situ through magnetic connections without complicated modification. To explore the practical application of M2SUs in wearable sensing, we equipped a glove with magnetic mounting points. This allowed for the quick and easy assembly of M2SUs using magnetic connections. We evaluated its performance across three common gesture recognition tasks: numeric keypad typing (Task 1), symbol drawing (Task 2), and uppercase letter writing (Task 3).

By employing a 1D convolutional neural network to analyze the gesture data, we achieved task-specific accuracies of 80.43% (Top 3: 97.68%) for Task 1, 88.58% (Top 3: 96.13%) for Task 2, and 79.87% (Top 3: 91.59%) for Task 3. We confirm that our modular soft sensor design facilitates high-accuracy gesture recognition on wearable devices through straightforward, in situ assembly. The inherent reconfigurability of this approach presents a versatile optimization strategy during prototyping and confers the capability to alternate sensor arrays with ease for specific tasks.

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