A bio-hybrid tactile sensor incorporating living artificial skin and an impedance sensing array

David Cheneler; Elisa Buselli; Domenico Camboni; Carl Anthony; Liam Grover; Michael John Adams; Calogero Maria Oddo

doi:10.3390/s141223781

A bio-hybrid tactile sensor incorporating living artificial skin and an impedance sensing array

David Cheneler^*, Elisa Buselli, Domenico Camboni, Carl Anthony, Liam Grover, Michael John Adams, Calogero Maria Oddo

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Abstract

The development of a bio-hybrid tactile sensor array that incorporates a skin analogue comprised of alginate encapsulated fibroblasts is described. The electrical properties are modulated by mechanical stress induced during contact, and changes are detected by a ten-channel dual-electrode impedance sensing array. By continuously monitoring the impedance of the sensor array at a fixed frequency, whilst normal and tangential loads are applied to the skin surface, transient mechanotransduction has been observed. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the preliminary prototype bio-hybrid tactile sensor.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23781-23802
Number of pages	22
Journal	Sensors (Switzerland)
Volume	14
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s141223781
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2014

Keywords

Artificial skin
Artificial touch
Bio-hybrid sensors
Bioimpedance
Haptics
Microfluidics
Tactile sensors

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Analytical Chemistry
Biochemistry
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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