Skin-like flexible sensors play vital roles in healthcare and human-machine interactions. However, general goals focus on pursuing intrinsic static and dynamic performance of skin-like sensors themselves accompanied with diverse trial-and-error attempts. Such a forward strategy almost isolates the design of sensors from resulting applications. Here, a machine learning (ML)-guided design of flexible tactile sensor system is reported, enabling a high classification accuracy (≈99.58%) of tactile perception in six dynamic touch modalities. Different from the intuition-driven sensor design, such ML-guided performance optimization is realized by introducing a support vector machine-based ML algorithm along with specific statistical criteria for fabrication parameters selection to excavate features deeply concealed in raw sensing data. This inverse design merges the statistical learning criteria into the design phase of sensing hardware, bridging the gap between the device structures and algorithms. Using the optimized tactile sensor, the high-quality recognizable signals in handwriting applications are obtained. Besides, with the additional data processing, a robot hand assembled with the sensor is able to complete real-time touch-decoding of an 11-digit braille phone number with high accuracy.
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December 2024
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101400, China.
In order to achieve interaction and collaboration with humans, robots need to have the ability for tactile perception of simulating human. Traditional methods use electrically connected sensors with complex arrays, leading to intricate wiring, high manufacturing costs, and demanding current environments. A flexible sensor with simple structure, easy preparation process, and low cost based on triboluminescence effect is proposed in this paper, which avoids the complex array and wiring of traditional sensors.
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December 2024
Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Mecatrónica, Departamento de Electrónica, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain.
This paper presents a contribution to the state of the art in the design of tactile sensing algorithms that take advantage of the characteristics of generalized sparse matrix-vector multiplication to reduce the area, power consumption, and data storage required for real-time hardware implementation. This work also addresses the challenge of implementing the hardware to execute multiaxial contact-force estimation algorithms from a normal stress tactile sensor array on a field-programmable gate-array development platform, employing a high-level description approach. This paper describes the hardware implementation of the proposed sparse algorithm and that of an algorithm previously reported in the literature, comparing the results of both hardware implementations with the software results already validated.
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December 2024
Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering Automation and Control, Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
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December 2024
Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Remote-sighted assistance (RSA) is a technology designed to provide assistance for visually impaired people (VIPs). In this scene, a remote-sighted agent communicates and sends commands to navigate and assist VIPs via real-time video sent back. However, the latency in real-time video and the deviation in the execution of instructions by VIPs are two important factors that affect the performance of agents to guide them.
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Institute for Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology (ITM), Faculty for Mechanical Science and Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
A therapeutic glove, which enables medical non-professionals to perform physiotherapeutic gripping and holding movements on patients, would significantly improve the healthcare situation in physiotherapy. The glove aims to detect the orthogonal pressure load and provide feedback to the user. The use of textile materials for the glove assures comfort and a good fit for the user.
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