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Touch‐sensitive skins for Japanese health care robots
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In this paper, the authors study the development of a sensor mimicking the human skin and reveal the integration of innovative sensing, signal processing, and power supply technologies, revealing originality/value.Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the scientific developments behind the announcement of a sensor mimicking the human skin.Design/methodology/approach – A brief review of the potential applications and design constraints of the robot skin is followed by an examination of published papers that trace its development.Findings – When sensors are embedded in an elastic matrix, connecting wires and mechanical attachments undermine the mechanical properties of that matrix. Progressive miniaturisation of the sensing devices, and ingenious methods of supplying power and communicating data, have gradually overcome this problem.Originality/value – The paper reveals the integration of innovative sensing, signal processing and power‐supply technologies.read more
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A shear stress sensor for tactile sensing with the piezoresistive cantilever standing in elastic material
TL;DR: In this paper, a tactile sensor with standing piezoresistive cantilevers embedded in an elastic material was proposed to detect the shear stress applied on its surface, and the efficiency of this sensor was confirmed in the range of −5.0 to 5.0
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A flexible micromachined planar spiral inductor for use as an artificial tactile mechanoreceptor
TL;DR: A micromachined planar spiral inductor was created for use as a passive mechanoreceptor element in a tactile sensor as mentioned in this paper, which was used as a reception area specific to their direction.
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Large Area Sensor Skin based on Two-Dimensional Signal Transmission Technology
TL;DR: An on-off type tactile sensor element which consists of a RFID-tag and RPC, and experimentally confirm that the sensor element works in a stretchable 2DST sheet.
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A Large Area Robot Skin Based on Cell-Bridge System
Takayuki Hoshi,Hiroyuki Shinoda +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a soft and stretchable robot skin, which consists of two dimensional areas called "cells" and signal transmission devices called "bridges", which are also utilized as the cells, and the bridges measure the capacitances.