TY - GEN
T1 - A toolbox for supporting the design of large-scale capacitive tactile systems
AU - Le, Thuy Hong Loan
AU - Maiolino, Perla
AU - Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio
AU - Cannata, Giorgio
AU - Schmitz, Alexander
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - In the process of covering a generic robot with artificial skin, it is necessary to use design tools allowing designers to specify and validate tactile requirements for the scenario at hand. In particular, given a set of well-defined functional requirements (e.g., minimum spatial sensitivity or minimum force to detect), there are two needs to be fulfilled: (i) to check the artificial skin capability to meet these requirements and criteria; (ii) to drive the customization process to find a reasoned trade-off between different (and possibly conflicting) design parameters, such as dielectric thickness or taxel diameter. The main contribution of this article is the description of a robot skin design toolbox based on Finite Element Analysis, able to provide the designer with insights in the behaviour of large scale tactile systems.
AB - In the process of covering a generic robot with artificial skin, it is necessary to use design tools allowing designers to specify and validate tactile requirements for the scenario at hand. In particular, given a set of well-defined functional requirements (e.g., minimum spatial sensitivity or minimum force to detect), there are two needs to be fulfilled: (i) to check the artificial skin capability to meet these requirements and criteria; (ii) to drive the customization process to find a reasoned trade-off between different (and possibly conflicting) design parameters, such as dielectric thickness or taxel diameter. The main contribution of this article is the description of a robot skin design toolbox based on Finite Element Analysis, able to provide the designer with insights in the behaviour of large scale tactile systems.
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U2 - 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100866
DO - 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100866
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856327261
SN - 9781612848679
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 153
EP - 158
BT - 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2011
T2 - 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2011
Y2 - 26 October 2011 through 28 October 2011
ER -