Space Sciences

Soft electronic skin for self-deployable tape-spring hinges

Y. Yao and X. Ning

Discover an innovative soft, lightweight electronic skin (e-skin) designed to monitor the intricate folding and deployment of tape-spring hinges in deployable space structures, developed by Yao Yao and Xin Ning. This breakthrough enables significant hinge deformation while offering vital multimodal sensing capabilities, pushing the boundaries of multifunctional self-sensing space technology.

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Abstract

This paper introduces a soft, lightweight electronic skin (e-skin) for sensing the folding and deployment of tape-spring hinges in deployable space structures. The e-skin accommodates significant hinge deformation and enables multimodal sensing, including strain measurements, motion sensing, and dynamics monitoring, offering a promising approach for multifunctional self-sensing space structures.

Publisher

Communications Engineering

Published On

Jan 25, 2024

Authors

Yao Yao, Xin Ning

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