A Soft Robot with Three Dimensional Shape Sensing and Contact Recognition Multi-Modal Sensing via Tunable Soft Optical Sensors

Max McCandless,Frank Juliá Wise,Sheila Russo,Max McCandless,Frank Juliá Wise,Sheila Russo

Soft optical sensing strategies are rapidly developing for soft robotic systems as a means to increase the controllability of soft compliant robots. In this paper, we present a roughness tuning strategy for the fabrication of soft optical sensors to achieve the dual functionality of shape sensing combined with contact recognition within a single multi-modal sensor. The molds used to fabricate the ...