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Massively parallel in-sensor skinomorphic computing

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李遗祥 (Yixiang Li)
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Yuekun Yang
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Cong Wang
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Yitong Dai
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Xiunan Yan
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Dehe Kong
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Zhengwei Liao
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Shuang Wang
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Gong-Jie Ruan
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Pengfei Wang
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Bin Cheng
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S. Liang *
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Feng Miao *
DOI:10.1038/s41467-026-71697-1delete
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Real-time sensing and processing of a large amount of tactile information is essential for intelligent robotics and wearable technology. However, physical separation between sensors and processors in the traditional tactile sensing scheme makes these functionalities inaccessible, posing a major roadblock to the rapid advance of skinomorphic electronics. Here, we propose a massively parallel in-sensor skinomorphic computing scheme and demonstrate its promising applications in intelligent tactile perception. This scheme allows for achieving parallel sensing and processing of tactile information directly within sensor. We implement this proposed scheme by fabricating a 32×32 flexible capacitive pressure sensors array with excellent uniformity and endurance, and by cascading the sensors array with a memristive crossbar array. We experimentally demonstrate that the broken pressure patterns of the letter ‘NJU’ loaded on the sensors array can be sensed and restored in parallel, which is inaccessible with previously reported tactile technologies. Moreover, by networking the pressure sensors array with two memristive crossbar arrays, we show that textural features of the loaded complex pressure patterns can be directly extracted in a parallel manner and the tactile information can thus be compressed. Our work opens up an avenue for developing intelligent skins capable of real-time and high-throughput tactile perception. Conventional tactile sensing schemes operate serially in the time domain with separate sensors and processors. Here, the authors present a massively parallel in-sensor skinomorphic computing scheme based on frequency division multiplexing by using continuous-time data representation, thus reducing wiring complexity.
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Electrical and electronic engineering
Sensors
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Humanities and Social Sciences
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