Electronic skins and flexible pressure sensors are important devices for advanced healthcare and intelligent robotics.Sensitivity is a key parameter of flexible pressure sensors.Whereas introducing surface microstruct...Electronic skins and flexible pressure sensors are important devices for advanced healthcare and intelligent robotics.Sensitivity is a key parameter of flexible pressure sensors.Whereas introducing surface microstructures in a capacitive-type sensor can significantly improve its sensitivity,the signal becomes nonlinear and the pressure response range gets much narrower,significantly limiting the applications of flexible pressure sensors.Here,we designed a pressure sensor that utilizes a nanoscale iontronic interface of an ionic gel layer and a micropillared electrode,for highly linear capacitance-to-pressure response and high sensitivity over a wide pressure range.The micropillars undergo three stages of deformation upon loading:initial contact(0-6 k Pa)and structure buckling(6-12 k Pa)that exhibit a low and nonlinear response,as well as a post-buckling stage that has a high signal linearity with high sensitivity(33.16 k Pa-1)over a broad pressure range of 12-176 k Pa.The high linearity lies in the subtle balance between the structure compression and mechanical matching of the two materials at the gel-electrode interface.Our sensor has been applied in pulse detection,plantar pressure mapping,and grasp task of an artificial limb.This work provides a physical insight in achieving linear response through the design of appropriate microstructures and selection of materials with suitable modulus in flexible pressure sensors,which are potentially useful in intelligent robots and health monitoring.展开更多
The 2-meter High-speed Free-jet Wind Tunnel(2 m HFWT)is China’s first large-scale open-jet trisonic wind tunnel.Compared to traditional closed high-speed wind tunnels,this wind tunnel is endowed with remarkable advan...The 2-meter High-speed Free-jet Wind Tunnel(2 m HFWT)is China’s first large-scale open-jet trisonic wind tunnel.Compared to traditional closed high-speed wind tunnels,this wind tunnel is endowed with remarkable advantages of ample test chamber space,less interference from the tunnel wall,flexible model support mode,and adjustable continuous variation of the Mach number.Nevertheless,its unique structure makes traditional wind tunnel control methods difficult to apply and brings significant challenges to wind tunnel flow field control.In this paper,a flow field control system is designed for the 2 m HFWT by comprehensively using advanced control technologies such as neural network,gain scheduling,feedforward control,and adaptive control.Through practical application tests,it is proved that the proposed control system successfully solves the problem of high-precision flow field control under continual depletion of storage tank pressure,and realizes distinctive functions of adaptive static pressure matching and continuously varying Mach number at supersonic speed.In addition,due to the application of workflow technology,the flow field control system can flexibly adapt to the implementation of tests of different types and operation conditions,thus fully satisfying the needs of conducting various conventional and special tests in the 2 m HFWT.展开更多
基金supported by the Science Technology and Innovation Committee of Shenzhen Municipality(JCYJ20170817111714314)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52073138 and 51771089)+2 种基金the Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program(2016ZT06G587)the Shenzhen Sci-Tech Fund(KYTDPT20181011104007)the Tencent Robotics X Lab Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program(JR201984)。
文摘Electronic skins and flexible pressure sensors are important devices for advanced healthcare and intelligent robotics.Sensitivity is a key parameter of flexible pressure sensors.Whereas introducing surface microstructures in a capacitive-type sensor can significantly improve its sensitivity,the signal becomes nonlinear and the pressure response range gets much narrower,significantly limiting the applications of flexible pressure sensors.Here,we designed a pressure sensor that utilizes a nanoscale iontronic interface of an ionic gel layer and a micropillared electrode,for highly linear capacitance-to-pressure response and high sensitivity over a wide pressure range.The micropillars undergo three stages of deformation upon loading:initial contact(0-6 k Pa)and structure buckling(6-12 k Pa)that exhibit a low and nonlinear response,as well as a post-buckling stage that has a high signal linearity with high sensitivity(33.16 k Pa-1)over a broad pressure range of 12-176 k Pa.The high linearity lies in the subtle balance between the structure compression and mechanical matching of the two materials at the gel-electrode interface.Our sensor has been applied in pulse detection,plantar pressure mapping,and grasp task of an artificial limb.This work provides a physical insight in achieving linear response through the design of appropriate microstructures and selection of materials with suitable modulus in flexible pressure sensors,which are potentially useful in intelligent robots and health monitoring.
文摘The 2-meter High-speed Free-jet Wind Tunnel(2 m HFWT)is China’s first large-scale open-jet trisonic wind tunnel.Compared to traditional closed high-speed wind tunnels,this wind tunnel is endowed with remarkable advantages of ample test chamber space,less interference from the tunnel wall,flexible model support mode,and adjustable continuous variation of the Mach number.Nevertheless,its unique structure makes traditional wind tunnel control methods difficult to apply and brings significant challenges to wind tunnel flow field control.In this paper,a flow field control system is designed for the 2 m HFWT by comprehensively using advanced control technologies such as neural network,gain scheduling,feedforward control,and adaptive control.Through practical application tests,it is proved that the proposed control system successfully solves the problem of high-precision flow field control under continual depletion of storage tank pressure,and realizes distinctive functions of adaptive static pressure matching and continuously varying Mach number at supersonic speed.In addition,due to the application of workflow technology,the flow field control system can flexibly adapt to the implementation of tests of different types and operation conditions,thus fully satisfying the needs of conducting various conventional and special tests in the 2 m HFWT.
