• Media type: Text; Doctoral Thesis; Electronic Thesis; E-Book
  • Title: A high speed sensor system for tactile interaction research
  • Contributor: Schürmann, Carsten [Author]
  • Published: noah.nrw, 2013
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: high speed ; optimization ; Myrmex ; tactile book ; tactile table ; virtual clay ; human grasp force ; tactile interaction ; high sensitivity ; tactile sensor ; sensor array ; slip detection ; modular sensor system ; USB Video ; tactile modules ; Tactile sensing ; self organization ; resistive sensor cells ; high spatial resolution
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  • Description: In this work we will describe and implement the first tactile sensor system that combines the properties of modularity with a very high sensing speed, a high sensitivity and a high spatial resolution. This unique combination of features enables researchers to develop novel applications and makes it possible to replace task specific tactile sensors with a single system. The very high sensing speed of the system allows for slip detection during robot grasping. And as all our sensor cells are sampled with the same high frequency, our system can even enable the slip detection for multiple contact points at the same time. This high speed was made possible through the development of a highly integrated parallel sensor sampling architecture. The modularity of the system allows it to be employed in a multitude of applications. Tactile sensitive surfaces of various dimensions can be easily realized through a very simple ’plug and use’ principle without the need for software configuration by the user. This was made possible by developing a new bus system that allows the relative localization of the participants. Our system can be used to create tactile sensitive table surfaces with a large amount of sensor cells and due to its high speed design still provide for real time frame rates. The flexibility and high performance of the system enabled us to develop a tactile sensitive object that allows the continuous high speed monitoring of human finger forces. For this we solved the problem of integrating the tactile sensors to allow free movement of the object, while maintaining a constant high rate of data capture and realizing a low latency synchronization to external devices. The high sensitivity of the system was made possible through technical innovation in the state of the art of resistive based tactile sensors. We did so by creating an optimized sensor cell shape and investigating the behavior of different sensor materials. The knowledge gained in this process was further used to advance the existing method of sensor ...
  • Access State: Open Access