{"id":8897,"date":"2026-03-22T23:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/?post_type=researchfund-project&#038;p=8897"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:09:18","slug":"soft-sensing-interfaces-with-multifunctional-smart-materials","status":"publish","type":"researchfund-project","link":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/researchfund-project\/soft-sensing-interfaces-with-multifunctional-smart-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft-Sensing Interfaces with Multifunctional Smart Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Led by Ardian Jusufi, this project investigated how biology and biomechanics can inform the design of soft robotic systems. Its goal was to develop flexible, stretchable, and potentially biocompatible materials that can sense deformation, pressure, and movement while adapting to complex surfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research combined soft sensors, hydrogel actuators, and bio-inspired robot designs. It also used <strong>robophysical models<\/strong>\u2014simplified physical robots that allow researchers to test how biological bodies move and interact with their environment. The project concluded in February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Developed flexible and stretchable sensors for measuring strain, pressure, curvature, and body deformation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved pressure sensing in situations where the sensor itself is stretched, addressing the trade-off between sensitivity, robustness, and durability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Created multilayer hydrogel actuators with improved strength, stretchability, and fluidic performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrated soft sensors into bio-inspired robots, including an underwater robotic fish, to measure body movement and provide feedback during locomotion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Used soft robotic fish and animal-inspired robots to study swimming, obstacle traversal, tail movements, mass distribution, and landing stability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demonstrated that soft sensors can measure body undulation and support closed-loop control, allowing a robotic fish to respond to changing flow conditions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Used biorobotic models to test biological hypotheses, including how squirrels use their tails to reorient themselves during falls and how geckos use their tails to stabilise crash landings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why it matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soft robots can deform, absorb impacts, and adapt to their surroundings more easily than rigid machines. Sensors that stretch and move with a robot are therefore essential for reliable control and for measuring the robot\u2019s interaction with its environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research contributes to more adaptable soft robots, wearable and skin-like sensors, underwater systems, and bio-inspired machines. It also shows how soft robotics can function as a scientific tool: robotic models make it possible to measure forces and movements that are difficult to study directly in living animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications and output<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Souri H, Banerjee H, Jusufi A, Radacsi N, Stokes A, Park I, Sitti M, Amjadi M. Advanced Int. Sys. 2 (8) 2000039. Wearable and Stretchable Strain Sensors: Materials, Sensing Mechanisms, and Applications. 2020. Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume: 2, Issue: 8, 2020. DOI:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/aisy.202000039\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/aisy.202000039<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Banerjee H, Kalairaj MS, Ren H, and Jusufi A*. Advanced Engineering Materials. Strong, Ultrastretchable Hydrogel-Based Multilayered Soft Actuator Composites Enhancing Biologically Inspired Pumping Systems. [Cover inside] Adv. Eng. Mater 2021, 23, 2100121.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wright B, Vogt D, Wood R, Jusufi A*. IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). Soft Sensors for Curvature Estimation under Water in a Soft Robotic Fish. COEX, Seoul, Korea, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Siddall R, Fukushima T, Bardhi D, Perteshoni B, Morina A, Hasimja E, Dujaka Y, Haziri G, Martin L, Banerjee H, Jusufi A*. Advanced Robotics 35 (7). Compliance, Mass Distribution and Contact Forces in Cursorial and Scansorial Locomotion with Biorobotic Physical Models. 2021.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full<\/a>\/10.1080\/01691864.2021.1887760.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fukushima Toshihiko, Robert Siddall,Fabian Schwab, Severine Toussaint, Greg Byrnes, John Nyakatura, and Ardian Jusufi. Inertial tail effects during righting of squirrels in unexpected falls: From behavior to robotics. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icab 023, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lin Yu-Hsiang, Siddall R, Schwab F, Fukushima T, Banerjee H, Youngjoon Baek, Daniel Vogt, Yong-Lae Park, and Jusufi A. Modeling and control of a soft robotic fish with integrated soft sensing. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2000244, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fabian Schwab, Elias T Lunsford, Taehwa Hong, Fabian Wiesem\u00fcller, Kovac M, Park YL, Akanyeti O, Liao J C, and Jusufi A. Body caudal undulation measured by soft sensors and emulated by soft artificial muscles. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fabian Schwab, Fabian Wiesem\u00fcller, Claudio Mucignat, Yong-Lae Park, Ivan Lunati,Mirko Kovac, and Ardian Jusufi. Undulatory swimming performance explored with a biorobotic fish and measured by soft sensors and particle image velocimetry. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, page 387, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Robert Siddall, Greg Byrnes, Rob J. 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