Experimental validation of a polyvinylidene fluoride sensing element in a tactile sensor

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5760-5763

  Yahud, S ^a,b   Dokos, S ^b   Morley, J W ^c   Lovell, N H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SENSING; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HUMAN HANDS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANORECEPTORS; OUTPUT RESPONSE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; PVDF FILMS; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; SENSING ELEMENTS; SENSORY FUNCTIONS; STRAIN GAUGE; TACTILE SENSORS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAGES; STRESSES;

SENSORS;

ELASTOMER; POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; STIMULATION; TOUCH; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOMERS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POLYVINYLS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; TOUCH;

EID: 78650821787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627847     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. M. H. Lee and H. R. Nicholls, "Review Article Tactile sensing for mechatronics--a state of the art survey," Mechatronics, vol. 9, 1999, pp. 1-31.
2. Lynette A. Jones and S. J. Lederman, "Neurophysiology of Hand Function," in Human Hand Function, ed New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2006, pp. 24-43.
3. B. J. Choi, H. R. Choi, and S. C. Kang, "Development of tactile sensor for detecting contact force and slip," in 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vols 1-4, 2005, pp. 1977- 1982
4. D. P. J. Cotton, P. H. Chappell, A. Cranny, N. M. White, and S. P. Beeby, "A novel thick-film piezoelectric slip sensor for a prosthetic hand," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, 2007, pp. 752-761.
5. K. Hosoda, Y. Tada, and M. Asada, "Anthropomorphic robotic soft fingertip with randomly distributed receptors", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, 2006, pp. 104-109.
6. S. Yahud, S. Dokos, J. W. Morley, and N. H. Lovell, "Finite Element Analysis of a Tactile Sensor for a Robotic Hand," Issnip 2008: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing, 2008, pp. 335-339
7. S. Yahud, S. Dokos, J. W. Morley, and N. H. Lovell, "Experimental validation of a tactile sensor model for a robotic hand," in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 2009, pp. 2300-2303.
8. R. E. Newnham, "Piezoelectricity," in Properties of Materials: Anisotropy, Symmetry, Structure, ed New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2004, pp. 87 - 102.
9. H. S. Tzou and C. I. Tseng, "Distributed piezoelectric sensor/actuator design for dynamic measurement/control of distributed parameter systems: A piezoelectric finite element approach," Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 138, 1990, pp. 17-34.
10. R. Yongrae, V. V. Varadan, and V. K. Varadan, "Characterization of all the elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric constants of uniaxially oriented poled PVDF films," Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 49, 2002, pp. 836-847.
11. J. I. Scheinbeim, Q. Zhang, and S. Zhang, "Poly(vinylidene fluoride)," in Polymer Data Handbook, J. E. Mark, Ed., 2nd ed New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2009, pp. 1168 - 1174.
12. "Piezo Film Sensors: Technical Manual," Measurement Specialities, Inc., Hampton, 2008.