Mechanics-induced triple-mode anticounterfeiting and moving tactile sensing by simultaneously utilizing instantaneous and persistent mechanoluminescence

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2003-2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhidong Ma ◽  
Jinyu Zhou ◽  
Jiachi Zhang ◽  
Songshan Zeng ◽  
Hui Zhou ◽  
...  

An intriguing mechanics-induced triple-mode anticounterfeiting device and a moving tactile sensor were developed by simultaneously utilizing transient and persistent mechanoluminescence.

2011 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
ZHAOXIAN XIE ◽  
HISASHI YAMAGUCHI ◽  
MASAHITO TSUKANO ◽  
AIGUO MING ◽  
MAKOTO SHIMOJO

As one of the home services by a mobile manipulator system, we are aiming at the realization of the stand-up motion support for elderly people. This work is charaterized by the use of real-time feedback control based on the information from high speed tactile sensors for detecting the contact force as well as its center of pressure between the assisted human and the robot arm. First, this paper introduces the design of the tactile sensor as well as initial experimental results to show the feasibility of the proposed system. Moreover, several fundamental tactile sensing-based motion controllers necessary for the stand-up motion support and their experimental verification are presented. Finally, an assist trajectory generation method for the stand-up motion support by integrating fuzzy logic with tactile sensing is proposed and demonstrated experimentally.


Robotica ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gen-Ichiro Kinoshita

SUMMARYThe tactile sensor is constructed as a part of the finger of a parallel jaw hand; it is of the size of a finger and allows for a large displacement of the sensor element in response to force. The structure of the tactile sensor incorporates 20 successively and closely aligned elements, which allow for a 2.5 mm maximum displacement for each element. In the described experiments we present the capabilities of the tactile sensor. The tactile sensor has the functions of: 1) discriminating the shape of the partial surface of an object; and 2) tracing by finger on the surface along the profile of an object.


Author(s):  
Wataru Fukui ◽  
Futoshi Kobayashi ◽  
Fumio Kojima ◽  
Hiroyuki Nakamoto ◽  
Tadashi Maeda ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 172988142093232
Author(s):  
Bing Zhang ◽  
Bowen Wang ◽  
Yunkai Li ◽  
Shaowei Jin

Tactile information is valuable in determining properties of objects that are inaccessible from visual perception. A new type of tangential friction and normal contact force magnetostrictive tactile sensor was developed based on the inverse magnetostrictive effect, and the force output model has been established. It can measure the exerted force in the range of 0–4 N, and it has a good response to the dynamic force in cycles of 0.25–0.5 s. We present a tactile perception strategy that a manipulator with tactile sensors in its grippers manipulates an object to measure a set of tactile features. It shows that tactile sensing system can use these features and the extreme learning machine algorithm to recognize household objects—purely from tactile sensing—from a small training set. The complex matrixes show the recognition rate is up to 83%.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoaki Yoshikai ◽  
Marika Hayashi ◽  
Yui Ishizaka ◽  
Hiroko Fukushima ◽  
Asuka Kadowaki ◽  
...  

In order to achieve robots' working around humans, safe contacts against objects, humans, and environments with broad area of their body should be allowed. Furthermore, it is desirable to actively use those contacts for achieving tasks. Considering that, many practical applications will be realized by whole-body close interaction of many contacts with others. Therefore, robots are strongly expected to achieve whole-body interaction behavior with objects around them. Recently, it becomes possible to construct whole-body tactile sensor network by the advancement of research for tactile sensing system. Using such tactile sensors, some research groups have developed robots with whole-body tactile sensing exterior. However, their basic strategy is making a distributed 1-axis tactile sensor network covered with soft thin material. Those are not sufficient for achieving close interaction and detecting complicated contact changes. Therefore, we propose “Soft Sensor Flesh.” Basic idea of “Soft Sensor Flesh” is constructing robots' exterior with soft and thick foam with many sensor elements including multiaxis tactile sensors. In this paper, a constructing method for the robot systems with such soft sensor flesh is argued. Also, we develop some prototypes of soft sensor flesh and verify the feasibility of the proposed idea by actual behavior experiments.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojie Wang

In this paper, we presented a multi-frame constrained block sparse Bayesian learning (MFC-BSBL) reconstruction algorithm to tackle the challenge of poor-quality reconstruction images in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for tactile sensing. The fundamental idea of MFC-BSBL is to explore the sparsity, intra-frame correlation, and inter-frame correlation of impedance distributions by extending the Bayesian inference framework. To verify the proposed algorithm, we conducted numerical simulations for different cases to identify one, multiple, round, and square targets. The simulation results demonstrated that this method can effectively detect the target positions and shapes by reducing artifacts and noise in the reconstructed images. To demonstrate the application of this approach to real EIT-based tactile sensing, we conducted real-contact detection experiments using the EIT tactile sensor system. Compared with traditional methods, the tactile sensor system using the MFC-BSBL algorithm can achieve accurate contact detection and significantly reduce artifacts and noise.


2019 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
pp. 111512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yancheng Wang ◽  
Xin Wu ◽  
Deqing Mei ◽  
Lingfeng Zhu ◽  
Jianing Chen

2012 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 1752-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang Wu ◽  
Yan Jie Liu ◽  
Hai Jun Han ◽  
Li Ning Sun

In order to raise position accuracy and stability in wafer transmission process, a tactile sensing system which can measure both deviation of wafer to manipulator and friction acting on wafer simultaneously is introduced. Analysis on kinetic model abstracted from sensing system is made, and following algorithms are applied: micro displacement is calculated through pressure values acting on different sensing units, and meanwhile friction is calculated from relative velocity between permanent magnet and inductance. Through simulation, indicators of sensing unit are established. This sensing system has the capacity of detecting deviation ranging 0-5 mm with resolution 0.05 mm and measure friction ranging 0-0.64 N. The results indicate that this sensing system meets the requirements in orthocenter deviation and friction measurement in wafer transmission process.


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