期刊
SOFT ROBOTICS
卷 9, 期 5, 页码 861-870出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/soro.2020.0202
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tactile sensor; force distribution; soft sensors
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- Innovation and Technology Commission of HKSAR [ITS/104/19FP]
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Vision-based tactile sensors offer high spatial resolution for acquiring multi-modal contact information, despite bulky size, providing competitive spatial resolution for deformation and accurate 3D force measurement.
Artificial tactile sensing for robots is a counterpart to the human sense of touch, serving as a feedback interface for sensing and interacting with the environment. A vision-based tactile sensor has emerged as a novel and advantageous branch of artificial tactile sensors. Compared with conventional tactile sensors, vision-based tactile sensors possess stronger potential thanks to acquiring multimodal contact information in much higher spatial resolution, although they typically suffer from bulky size and fabrication challenges. In this article, we report a thin vision-based tactile sensor that draws inspiration from natural compound eye structures and demonstrate its capability of sensing three-dimensional (3D) force. The sensor is composed of an array of vision units, an elastic touching interface, and a supporting structure with illumination. Experiments validated the sensor's advantages, including competitive spatial resolution of deformation as high as 1016 dpi on a 5 x 8 mm(2) sensing area, superior accuracy of 3D force measurement at levels of 0.018 N for tangential force and 0.213 N (0.108 N at the center region) for normal force, and real-time processing at 30 Hz, while achieving a thin size of 5 mm. We further demonstrate the sensor capability in sensing 3D force and slip occurrence in real grasping experiments. This device paves the way for robotic applications that require rich tactile information with miniaturized sensor structure.
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