A Distributed Tactile Sensor for Intuitive Human-Robot Interfacing
Joint Authors
De Maria, Giuseppe
Natale, Ciro
Cirillo, Andrea
Cirillo, Pasquale
Pirozzi, Salvatore
Source
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-04-27
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Safety of human-robot physical interaction is enabled not only by suitable robot control strategies but also by suitable sensing technologies.
For example, if distributed tactile sensors were available on the robot, they could be used not only to detect unintentional collisions, but also as human-machine interface by enabling a new mode of social interaction with the machine.
Starting from their previous works, the authors developed a conformable distributed tactile sensor that can be easily conformed to the different parts of the robot body.
Its ability to estimate contact force components and to provide a tactile map with an accurate spatial resolution enables the robot to handle both unintentional collisions in safe human-robot collaboration tasks and intentional touches where the sensor is used as human-machine interface.
In this paper, the authors present the characterization of the proposed tactile sensor and they show how it can be also exploited to recognize haptic tactile gestures, by tailoring recognition algorithms, well known in the image processing field, to the case of tactile images.
In particular, a set of haptic gestures has been defined to test three recognition algorithms on a group of 20 users.
The paper demonstrates how the same sensor originally designed to manage unintentional collisions can be successfully used also as human-machine interface.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cirillo, Andrea& Cirillo, Pasquale& De Maria, Giuseppe& Natale, Ciro& Pirozzi, Salvatore. 2017. A Distributed Tactile Sensor for Intuitive Human-Robot Interfacing. Journal of Sensors،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1186817
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Cirillo, Andrea…[et al.]. A Distributed Tactile Sensor for Intuitive Human-Robot Interfacing. Journal of Sensors No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1186817
American Medical Association (AMA)
Cirillo, Andrea& Cirillo, Pasquale& De Maria, Giuseppe& Natale, Ciro& Pirozzi, Salvatore. A Distributed Tactile Sensor for Intuitive Human-Robot Interfacing. Journal of Sensors. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1186817
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1186817