Title :
A versatile tactile sensor system for covering large and curved surface areas
Author :
Zillich, Michael ; Feiten, Wendelin
Author_Institution :
Autom. & Control Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
Most of today´s robots, while being equipped with arrays of ever more impressive sensors, still lack a fundamental ability so readily available to biological systems: a sense of touch. With the exception of a few humanoid platforms tactile sensing is typically limited to small areas such as palms or finger tips. In this paper we present a tactile sensing system designed specifically to meet the needs of covering large, possibly curved surfaces of the robot. The sensors are at the same time highly sensitive and robust, cheap to manufacture and can be made to have almost any size and shape. As such the presented system can ideally complement existing systems and their high spatial resolution required in finger tips with a system providing highly sensitive and impact resistant coverage for the rest of the body.
Keywords :
haptic interfaces; humanoid robots; sensor arrays; tactile sensors; biological systems; finger tips; humanoid platform tactile sensing system; large-curved surface areas; sensitive-impact resistant body coverage; sensor arrays; spatial resolution; Conferences; Robot sensing systems; Rubber; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vilamoura
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1737-5
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2012.6385806