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When a slider with induced charges moves over the sensing electrode, electrostatic induction occurs in the sensing electrode, which causes an electric current. The current is converted to a voltage through a detection resistance, which will be an output of the sensing circuit. This paper provides a framework to analyze the output signal waveform and shows that the waveform consists of two components. One component is caused by driving voltage and appears regardless of the existence of a slider. The other component corresponds to the movement of a slider, which appears only when a slider is moving over the sensing electrode. Therefore, the slider can be detected by monitoring the latter component. The two components generally overlap, which makes the detection of the latter component difficult in some cases. This paper proposes a method to decouple the two components by switching the detection resistance at an appropriate time. These methods are verified using a prototype actuator that has an electrode pitch of 0.6 mm. The actuator was driven with a set of pulse voltages with an amplitude of 1000 V. The experimental results show similar waveforms to the analytical results, verifying the proposed analytical framework. The performance of the sensing method as a proximity sensor was verified in the experiments, and it was confirmed that the slider can be detected when it approaches the sensing electrode within about 3 mm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23031529","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,30]],"date-time":"2023-01-30T07:56:48Z","timestamp":1675065408000},"page":"1529","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Slider Sheet Detection in Charge-Induction Electrostatic Film Actuators"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Motoki","family":"Kojima","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8563, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8583-6699","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shunsuke","family":"Yoshimoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8563, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7621-0691","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akio","family":"Yamamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8563, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1765","DOI":"10.1109\/TMECH.2014.2353815","article-title":"Transparent synchronous electrostatic actuator for long-stroke planar motion","volume":"20","author":"Hosobata","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE\/ASME Trans. 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