Application of Sensors in the System of Shell Structures with Flexible Wearable Electronics

The use of flexible wearable electronics in robotics, industry, agriculture, clothing, medicine, etc. is caused by an ever-increasing need. Various sensors and devices for reading and transmitting information based on environmentally friendly, flexible and durable materials can be securely mounted in the shell structure of the robot or attached to the surface of human skin, which will allow extracting and analyze a number of important technical and medical indicators. Important parameters include temperature, pressure, load values, air composition, environmental parameters, medical indicators, etc. The paper proposes an approach to describing the types of wearable electronics for monitoring information about the state of robotic objects involved in production, or a person, about his health, environmental monitoring, pressure sensors, various types of deformation, force sensors that can be combined with temperature sensors, physiological and biochemical sensors, and can also be included in multifunctional sensors. A network of sensors is necessary to determine the parameters of the shell structure during its operation, to monitor the state of a robot or a person. The technical parameters of the multilayer protective shell can be local values of the distributed load on the shell, pressure, tensile or bending deformation, etc. The general principles of operation of sensors and transmitters embedded in a flexible multilayer protective shell structure are considered, and structural innovations are also proposed. The paper considers functional modules that will make wearable electronics more adequate to real technical objects and for humans. A number of problems that arise in the development of wearable electronics and its application for modeling flexible intelligent shell structures are described.