Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays
Data files
Sep 17, 2025 version files 242.01 KB
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PDdata.xls
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README.md
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system_control.ino
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Abstract
High-resolution electronic tactile displays stand to transform haptics for remote machine operation, virtual reality, and digital information access for blind and visually impaired people. Yet, increasing their resolution requires increasing the number of individually addressable actuators while simultaneously reducing their total surface area, power consumption, and weight, challenges most evidently reflected in the dearth of affordable multiline braille displays. Blending principles from soft robotics, microfluidics, and nonlinear mechanics, we introduce a 10x10 array of 2 millimeter-diameter, combustion-powered, eversible soft actuators that individually rise in 0.24 milliseconds to repeatably produce display patterns. Our rubber architecture is hermetically sealed and demonstrates resistance to liquid and dirt ingress. Finally, we demonstrate complete actuation cycles in an untethered tactile display prototype. Our platform technology extends the capabilities of tactile displays to environments currently inaccessible to traditional actuation modalities.
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.70rxwdc9s
Description of the data and file structure
Units for pressure-displacement dataset:
Raw pressure data taken from sensor is converted to psi from calibration constant, displacement data is recorded in mm. Data aligned so that membranes start experimental actuation cycle (inward and outward eversion are taken sequentially) from a common distance.
Files and variables
File: PDdata.xls
File: system_control.ino
The system_control.ino file can be run by downloading the Arduino IDE and uploading the .ino file to the corresponding Arduino system.
Description: Values of pressure-displacement experiments taken for each of a 3-sample set. Corresponds to data in Fig. 2B.
Pressure data is recorded and converted to psi (data calibration was in psi), then kPa units presented in Fig. 2B are calculated from psi. Displacement data is recorded in mm.
Variables
- Pressure (psi)
- Displacement (mm)
Code/software
.xls data can be plotted with any software or in Excel.
