TY - GEN
T1 - Touch sensors for humanoid hands
AU - Schmitz, Alexander
AU - Maggiali, Marco
AU - Natale, Lorenzo
AU - Metta, Giorgio
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The sense of touch is of major importance for object handling. Nevertheless, adequate cutaneous sensors for humanoid robot hands are still missing. Designing such sensors is challenging, because they should not only give reliable measurements and integrate many sensing points into little space, but they should also be compliant and should not obstruct the other functions of the robot. This paper presents a capacitive pressure sensor system with 108 sensitive zones for the hands of the humanoid robot iCub. In particular, the palm has 48 taxels and each of the five fingertips has 12 taxels. The size and the shape of the hand are similar to that of a human child. When designing the sensors, we paid special attention to the integration on the robot. Also the ease and speed of production was an important design factor. Furthermore, the sensor incorporates silicone foam and is therefore compliant. We show the working principle of the sensor, how it has been integrated into the hands, and describe experiments that have been performed to show the characteristics of the sensor.
AB - The sense of touch is of major importance for object handling. Nevertheless, adequate cutaneous sensors for humanoid robot hands are still missing. Designing such sensors is challenging, because they should not only give reliable measurements and integrate many sensing points into little space, but they should also be compliant and should not obstruct the other functions of the robot. This paper presents a capacitive pressure sensor system with 108 sensitive zones for the hands of the humanoid robot iCub. In particular, the palm has 48 taxels and each of the five fingertips has 12 taxels. The size and the shape of the hand are similar to that of a human child. When designing the sensors, we paid special attention to the integration on the robot. Also the ease and speed of production was an important design factor. Furthermore, the sensor incorporates silicone foam and is therefore compliant. We show the working principle of the sensor, how it has been integrated into the hands, and describe experiments that have been performed to show the characteristics of the sensor.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598609
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598609
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649877213
SN - 9781424479917
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 691
EP - 697
BT - 19th International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2010
T2 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2010
Y2 - 12 September 2010 through 15 September 2010
ER -