A flexible full-body tactile sensor of low cost and minimal connections

Author

Pan, Zengxi ; Cui, Hongliang ; Zhu, Zhenqi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2368

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new tactile sensor made of textiles. It has the basic structure of a matrix tactile sensor but uses only four connections to measure the magnitude and position of applied pressure, similar to the analog tactile sensor, which is widely used in touch screens and touch pads. The structure and model of the sensor are introduced. Although we could not map the exact contour of the contact area due to limited connections, the maximum number of touch points in each direction could be detected. The sensor could be used as the full-body tactile sensor for a robot, the smart carpet for a security room and so on.

Keywords

force sensors; position measurement; pressure measurement; pressure sensors; robots; tactile sensors; analog tactile sensor; contact area; flexible full body tactile sensor; matrix tactile sensor; position measurement; pressure measurement; robot; security room; smart carpet; touch pads; touch points; touch screens; Costs; Force sensors; Humans; Intelligent sensors; Medical robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Shape; Tactile sensors; Textiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1244238

Filename

1244238