Development of a biomimetic roughness sensor for tactile information with an elastomer

Jae-Young Choi; Sung Joon Kim; Hyungpil Moon; Hyouk Ryeol Choi; Ja Choon Koo

doi:10.1117/12.2220286

15 April 2016 Development of a biomimetic roughness sensor for tactile information with an elastomer

Jae-Young Choi, Sung Joon Kim, Hyungpil Moon, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Ja Choon Koo

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Proceedings Volume 9798, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2016; 979839 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2220286
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

Human uses various sensational information for identifying an object. When contacting an unidentified object with no vision, tactile sensation provides a variety of information to perceive. Tactile sensation plays an important role to recognize a shape of surfaces from touching. In robotic fields, tactile sensation is especially meaningful. Robots can perform more accurate job using comprehensive tactile information. And in case of using sensors made by soft material like silicone, sensors can be used in various situations. So we are developing a tactile sensor with soft materials. As the conventional robot operates in a controlled environment, it is a good model to make robots more available at any circumstance that sensory systems of living things. For example, there are lots of mechanoreceptors that each of them has different roles detecting simulation in side of human skin tissue. By mimicking the mechanoreceptor, a sensory system can be realized more closely to human being. It is known that human obtains roughness information through scanning the surface with fingertips. During that times, subcutaneous mechanoreceptors detect vibration. In the same way, while a robot is scanning a surface of object, a roughness sensor developed detects vibrations generated between contacting two surfaces. In this research, a roughness sensor made by an elastomer was developed and experiment for perception of objects was conducted. We describe means to compare the roughness of objects with a newly developed sensor.

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Jae-Young Choi, Sung Joon Kim, Hyungpil Moon, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, and Ja Choon Koo "Development of a biomimetic roughness sensor for tactile information with an elastomer", Proc. SPIE 9798, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2016, 979839 (15 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2220286

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