A biomimetic sensing skin: characterization of piezoresistive fabric-based elastomeric sensors

This article presents a deformable poroelastic bidimensional elastomeric architecture that responds to deformations along various directions thanks to an integrated sensorized fabric. The sensors exploit the piezoresistivity of the loaded rubbers as a principle of strain transduction. Using this architecture, sensors have been characterized in terms of their quasistatic and dynamic electromechanical transduction properties.