Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids

By Ravinder S. Dahiya, Giorgio Metta, Maurizio Valle, Giulio Sandini. IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2010

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor With Application to In-Hand Manipulation (2020, background): “The design of tactile sensors has been an active field of research for many years [18] with a large range of technologies”
Flexible Tactile Sensors Using Screen-Printed P(VDF-TrFE) and MWCNT/PDMS Composites (2015, background): “01-1N) experienced by humans in daily tasks [14].”
A survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions (2010, neutral): “…for a more recent overview of grasping and manipulation approaches, and the hardware that such approaches typically employ, to Tegin and Wikander [4]; and for a current survey of tactile sensing for robotics, that additionally identifies design hints for sensor development, to Dahiya et al. [5].”
Skin-inspired highly stretchable and conformable matrix networks for multifunctional sensing (2018, background): “…1 – 6 has been developed to mimic the human somatosensory system by detecting and quantifying various stimuli in the ambient environment and have attracted tremendous attention for their revolutionary applications in robotics 7,8 , prosthetics 4,9,10 , and health-monitoring technologies 3,11,12 .”
Giant tunneling piezoresistance of composite elastomers with interlocked microdome arrays for ultrasensitive and multimodal electronic skins. (2014, background): “surgery, as well as in a wide range of other electronic and biomedical applications.(3) 15”
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2014, neutral): “It is often assumed that the number of sensors distributed over an artificial skin should be large and that the sensors should be small (1 mm or less), especially on hands and fingers [57].”
GelSlim: A High-Resolution, Compact, Robust, and Calibrated Tactile-sensing Finger (2018, background): “The body of literature on tactile sensing technologies is large [1], [8].”
Tactile sensing in dexterous robot hands - Review (2015, background): “On less sensitive parts of a robot hand like the palm, the spatial resolution decreases up to 5 mm as stated in [17].”
Fingertip skin–inspired microstructured ferroelectric skins discriminate static/dynamic pressure and temperature stimuli (2015, background): “The interlocked microstructures between the epidermal and dermal layers are known to amplify and efficiently transfer the tactile stimuli to cutaneous mechanoreceptors (29, 30).”
Technologies for Printing Sensors and Electronics Over Large Flexible Substrates: A Review (2015, background): “The printed electronics on flexible substrates will enable conformable sensitive electronic systems such as electronic skin that can be wrapped around the body of a robot or prosthetic hands [20]–[25].”
A Review of Tactile Information: Perception and Action Through Touch (2020, neutral): “and communication perspective [3].”
Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication (2015, background): “Though highdensity tactile sensors have been in use with robotic fingertips and hands for several decades, full body tactile sensitive arrays for artificial skins have only recently been explored [24].”