Experiment on roughness identification using thermal tactile sensor

Author

Jianfeng, Wu ; Lianjie, Zhou ; Jianqing, Li ; Zhipeng, Mao ; CongYan, Cheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Instrum. Sci. & Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 April 2011

Firstpage

378

Lastpage

381

Abstract

Thermal tactile method has been used to recognize different thermal properties of materials. In which, temperature sensor detects the temperature change of contact surface. Mechanism of temperature tactile to identify material thermal properties have been analyzed. The thermal conductivity sensing was simulated and tested for the objects in different surface roughness. A Surface Air Layer Model has been proposed, in which the surface of objects is equivalent to smooth objects and a thin air layer. The results showed that the thermal tactile sensor can recognize different roughness of objects, Surface Air Layer Model can explain the influence of the contact morphology well.

Keywords

surface roughness; tactile sensors; temperature sensors; thermal conductivity measurement; roughness identification; surface air layer model; surface roughness; temperature sensor; thermal conductivity sensing; thermal property; thermal tactile sensor; Rough surfaces; Surface morphology; Surface resistance; Surface roughness; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Surface Air Layer Model; Surface roughness; roughness identification; thermal tactile;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8036-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEICE.2011.5777694

Filename

5777694