TY - GEN
T1 - Basic study on a soft tactile sensor based on subcutaneous tissue with collagen fibers
AU - Sonoi, Yuto
AU - Tanaka, Yoshihiro
AU - Hashimoto, Masayoshi
AU - Fukasawa, Motoaki
AU - Usuda, Nobuteru
AU - Otake, Yoshito
AU - Fukumoto, Manabu
AU - Sano, Akihito
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Humans have a high sensitivity and a broad receptive field in tactile function and the skin performs an important role to propagate mechanical stimulation to mechanoreceptors. Previously, a finite element analysis using a skin model with collagen fibers revealed that the collagen fibers disperse stress concentrations in subcutaneous tissue. Thus, this paper presents the development of a soft tactile sensor having a structure of the subcutaneous tissue composed of adipose tissue and the collagen fibers by using urethane resins. As a sensing element, the compression of the adipose tissue part occurred by deformation on the sensor’s surface is measured by using the water level. A response of the proposed sensor is compared with a response of a sensor having a conventional uniform structure. The results indicate that the proposed sensor has a broad receptive field maintaining a high sensitivity as compared with the uniform sensor.
AB - Humans have a high sensitivity and a broad receptive field in tactile function and the skin performs an important role to propagate mechanical stimulation to mechanoreceptors. Previously, a finite element analysis using a skin model with collagen fibers revealed that the collagen fibers disperse stress concentrations in subcutaneous tissue. Thus, this paper presents the development of a soft tactile sensor having a structure of the subcutaneous tissue composed of adipose tissue and the collagen fibers by using urethane resins. As a sensing element, the compression of the adipose tissue part occurred by deformation on the sensor’s surface is measured by using the water level. A response of the proposed sensor is compared with a response of a sensor having a conventional uniform structure. The results indicate that the proposed sensor has a broad receptive field maintaining a high sensitivity as compared with the uniform sensor.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-42324-1_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-42324-1_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978269234
SN - 9783319423234
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 35
EP - 43
BT - Haptics
A2 - Bello, Fernando
A2 - Visell, Yon
A2 - Kajimoto, Hiroyuki
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th International Conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications, EuroHaptics 2016
Y2 - 4 July 2016 through 7 July 2016
ER -