Development of new type tactile sensor for detecting hardness and/or software of an object like the human hand

Author

Omata, S. ; Terunuma, Y.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng., Nihon Univ., Fukushima, Japan

fYear

1991

Firstpage

868

Lastpage

871

Abstract

The authors have developed a novel tactile sensor for detecting, in a manner similar to that of the human hand, the hardness and/or softness of an object. This sensor is quite different from conventional tactile sensors which consist of a strain gage, conductive elastomer, and piezoelectric polymer film. The novel sensor is designed to operate with a piezoelectric element which is employed as the sensor, and shows excellent performance. This sensor can also be widely applied in the medical, robotics, and measurement fields.<>

Keywords

biological techniques and instruments; biomedical measurement; electric sensing devices; hardness testing; mechanoception; piezoelectric transducers; robots; tactile sensors; PZT; PbZrO3TiO3; biomedical measurement; hardness; human hand; measurement; piezoelectric sensor; robotics; software; tactile sensor; tissue; Biological tissues; Capacitive sensors; Force sensors; Humans; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Medical robotics; Object detection; Robot sensing systems; Tactile sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, 1991. Digest of Technical Papers, TRANSDUCERS '91., 1991 International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-87942-585-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSOR.1991.149023

Filename

149023