Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/admt.202200595
Keywords
anisotropic sensing; multiaxis; soft materials; tactile sensors; waveguides
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51975306, 92048302]
- Institute for Electronics and Information Technology in Tianjin, Tsinghua University
- China Institute of Electronics-Tencent Robotics X Rhino-Bird Focused Research Project [2020-01-007]
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This study presents a multiaxis tactile sensor based on a soft anisotropic waveguide, which exhibits high sensitivity and high resistance to overload, and can distinguish normal force and shear force. By embedding two anisotropic units, a multiaxis sensor is formed, and the calibration algorithm achieves the reconstruction of vector forces.
Rich and accurate tactile perceptive capability is important for both humans and robots. Soft materials exhibit unique characteristics to construct high-performance tactile sensors such as high sensitivity and high resistance to overload. In this work, a multiaxis tactile sensor based on a soft anisotropic waveguide that can distinguish normal force and shear force, which can greatly expand its potential uses in practice, is reported. First, the anisotropy of the waveguide sensor's response to vector forces is validated numerically and experimentally, and then two of those anisotropic units are embedded into one cladding with a crossed-over layout, to form a multiaxis sensor. Then, a calibration algorithm is implemented on this sensor and the reconstruction of vector forces is achieved at an average accuracy of 28.0 mN for normal forces and 81.1 mN for shear forces, both with the sensing range of 1 N. Using this device, three demonstrations are shown to give outlooks of its potential application in human and robotic grasping tasks: a wearable tactile sensor for collecting human's haptic data during operation, a uniaxial gyroscope, and a robotic gripper's tactile sensor for assisting an unlocking task with a key. This work is a step toward more functional soft waveguide-based force sensors.
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