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In-Material Computation: A Computational Metamaterial for Data-Efficient Tactile Interfaces
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Embedding computational capabilities directly into the physical structure of soft materials is a central goal for developing next-generation smart sensors and human-machine interfaces. However, achieving deterministic information processing within a compliant material remains a significant design and fabrication challenge. We introduce a computational metamaterial that physically performs information encoding through a deterministic process termed mechanical compilation. This structured elastomer, embedded with a sparse optical sensing network, is engineered to deterministically map complex high-dimensional spatial pressure patterns, benchmarked using 26 distinct Braille characters, into unique low-dimensional optical signals with 100% classification accuracy. The physically encoded information is of such high quality that a synergistic physics-informed machine learning (PIML) decoder maintains over 96% accuracy with an 80% reduction in training data, demonstrating a profound enhancement in data efficiency. This work pioneers a structure-driven design paradigm for computational metamaterials, shifting the computational burden from software to the material itself and paving a new path toward highly efficient, low-complexity sensing systems.
Keywords:
compressive sensing
mechanical information encoding
tactile sensing
physics-informed machine learning
sparse sensor array
morphological computation
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