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on recent developments, and fabrication strategies for soft sensing
systems to be integrated into soft robotic devices have been
illustrated. Capacitive sensors can be fabricated with a variety
of designs and are suitable for manifold applications, especially
also for retrofitting. Such sensors are ideally suited for robotics
due to their ruggedness and versatility and can be included
as a part of multimodal system setups. Especially fabricated as
stretchable and soft, they are ideally suited for being part of soft
robotic systems in future collaborative soft machines.
Acknowledgment
The work presented in this paper has been partially carried
out in the project ASAM, which is co-financed in the frame of
the Cooperation Programme Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria
from the European Regional Development Fund and has received
funding from the Austrian Ministry for Transport,
Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) within the ICT of the Future
Programme (4th call) of the Austrian Research Promotion
Agency (FFG) under grant agreement no. 864807 (AutoLOG).
Researchers received funding from the Federal Ministry for
Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) within the framework
of COIN " Aufbau, " 8th call of the Austrian Research Promotion
Agency (FFG)-project number 884136 (iLEAD).
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Lisa-Marie Faller (l.faller@fh-kaernten.at) is holding a full
Professorship in Robotics at the Faculty of Engineering & IT,
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria. Her
team at the ADMiRE lab is working in additive manufacturing
and emerging materials and technologies for tactile sensors
and grippers for robotic applications.
Hubert Zangl (Hubert.Zangl@aau.at) is Professor for
Sensors and Actuators at the Institute of Smart System
Technologies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. With
his research team he addresses topics of robust sensor design
and optimization, nearfield sensing and tomography
and autarkic wireless sensors for applications in robotics
and IoT.
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