Abstract
Improvement on a new type of touch sensor for detecting contact pressure at human fingertips is presented. A fingernail is instrumented with spatially distributed arrays of miniature LEDs and photodetectors in order to measure changes in the nail color pattern when the fingertip is pressed against a surface. Unlike traditional electronic gloves, in which sensor pads are placed between the fingers and the environment surface, this new sensor allows the fingers to directly contact the environment without obstructing the human’s natural haptic senses. The finger touch force is detected by measuring changes in the nail color, hence the sensor is mounted on the fingernail rather than on the fingertip. Photo-reflective plethysmography is used to measure the pattern of nail color — i.e. the blood content under the fingernail. Hemodynamic modeling is used to investigate the dynamics of the change in blood volume at multiple locations under the fingernail. The model is simulated and then evaluated by comparison with the experimental dynamic response of the sensor.
Fundamental Acoustical Finger Force Calculation for Out-of-Plane Ultrasonic Vibration and its Correlation with Friction Reduction
