A refreshable braille cell based on pneumatic microbubble actuators

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 908-916

  Wu, Xiaosong ^a   Kim, Seong Hyok ^b   Zhu, Haihong ^b   Ji, Chang Hyeon ^c   Allen, Mark G ^b  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Braille; pneumatic actuators; polymer films; soft lithography; stereolithography

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; BRAILLE; CORRUGATED DIAPHRAGM; ELASTOMER LAYERS; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT CHARACTERISTICS; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLE ACTUATOR ARRAYS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PARYLENES; PDMS ELASTOMER; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; REFRESHABLE BRAILLE CELL; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; TACTILE ACTUATORS; TACTILE DISPLAY;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISPLAY DEVICES; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELASTOMERS; HYSTERESIS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MICROCHANNELS; PLASTICS; PNEUMATICS; POLYMER FILMS; SILICONES; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84864583738     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2012.2190043     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. J. S. Lee and S. Lucyszyn, "A micromachined refreshable Braille cell," J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 673-682, Aug. 2005. (Pubitemid 41508706)
2. H. Zhu and W. Book, "Practical structure design and control for digital clay," in Proc. ASME Int. Mech. Eng. Congr. Expos., 2004, pp. 1051-1058. (Pubitemid 40737163)
3. C. Youngblut, R. E. Johnston, S. H. Nash, R. A. Wienclaw, and C. A. Will, Review of virtual environment interface technology, Inst. Defense Anal., Alexandria, VA, IDA Paper P-3186. Online. Available: http://handle.dtic.mil/100. 2/ADA314134
4. M. Benali-Khoudja, M. Hafez, J. M. Alexandre, A. A. K. A. Kheddar, and V. A. M. V. Moreau, "VITAL: A new low-cost vibro-tactile display system," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom., 2004, vol. 1, pp. 721-726.
5. M. Konyo and S. Todokoro, "Artificial tactile feel display using EAP actuator," Worldwide ElectroActive Polymers, Artificial Muscles, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-16, 2000.
6. X. Wu, H. Zhu, S.-H. Kim, and M. G. Allen, "A portable pneumaticallyactuated refreshable Braille cell," in Proc. TRANSDUCERS, 2007, pp. 825-828.
7. A. Bowles, A. Rahman, T. Jarman, P. Morris, and J. Gore, "A new technology for high density actuator arrays," in Proc. Smart Struct. Mater.-Smart Structures Integrated Systems, 2005, pp. 680-689. (Pubitemid 41336369)
8. Y. Ikei, K. Wakamatsu, and S. Fukuda, "Vibratory tactile display of image-based textures," Comput. Graph. Appl., vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 53-61, Nov. 1997. (Pubitemid 127568586)
9. R. D. Howe, D. A. Kontarinis, and W. J. Peine, "Shape memory alloy actuator controller design for tactile displays," in Proc. 34th IEEE Conf. Decision Control, 1995, vol. 4, pp. 3540-3544.
10. P. M. Taylor, A.Moser, and A. Creed, "A sixty-four element tactile display using shape memory alloy wires," Displays, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 163-168, May 1998. (Pubitemid 128403181)
11. M. Jungmann and H. F. Schlaak, "Electrostatic actuators with elastic dielectric for use on tactile displays," in Proc. 8th Int. Conf. New Actuators, Actuator, 2002, pp. 391-394.
12. F. Vidal-Verdú and R. Navas-González, "A thermopneumatic approach for tactile displays," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Mechatron., 2004, pp. 395-399.
13. T. Nara, M. Takasaki, T. Maeda, T. Higuchi, S. Ando, and S. Tachi, "Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) tactile display based on properties of mechanoreceptors," in Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality, 2001, pp. 13-20. (Pubitemid 32334727)
14. Y. Kato, T. Sekitani, M. Takamiya, M. Doi, K. Asaka, T. Sakurai, and T. Someya, "Sheet-type Braille displays by integrating organic fieldeffect transistors and polymeric actuators," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 202-209, Feb. 2007. (Pubitemid 46358405)
15. S. Ukai, T. Imamura, M. Shikida, and K. Sato, "Bubble driven arrayed actuator device for a tactile display," in Proc. TRANSDUCERS, 2007, pp. 2171-2174.
16. L. Yobas, M. A. Huff, F. J. Lisy, and D. M. Durand, "A novel bulk micromachined electrostatic microvalve with a curved-compliant structure applicable for a pneumatic tactile display," J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 187-196, Jun. 2001. (Pubitemid 32583114)
17. I. Müller and P. P. Strehlow, Rubber and Rubber Balloons: Paradigms of Thermodynamics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.
18. X. Wu, G. Yuan, Y. K. Yoon, and M. G. Allen, "Kinematically stabilized microbubble actuator arrays," J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 124-132, Feb. 2008. (Pubitemid 351343925)
19. S. A. Wall and S. Brewster, "Sensory substitution using tactile pin arrays: Human factors, technology and applications," Signal Process., vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 3674-3695, Dec. 2006. (Pubitemid 44512033)
20. G. Moy, C. Wagner, and R. S. Fearing, "A compliant tactile display for teletaction," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom., 2000, vol. 4, pp. 3409-3415.
21. G. E. Legge, C. M. Madison, and J. S. Mansfield, "Measuring Braille reading speed with theMNREAD test," Vis. Impairment Res., vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 131-145, Jan. 1999.
22. K. Takahata and Y. Gianchandani, "A micromachined capacitive pressure sensor using a cavity-less structure with bulk-metal/elastomer layers and its wireless telemetry application," Sensors, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2317-2330, Apr. 2008.
23. H. J. Qi and M. C. Boyce, "Stress-strain behavior of thermoplastic polyurethanes," Mech. Mater., vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 817-839, 2005. (Pubitemid 40642924)
24. J. M. Loomis, "On the tangibility of letters and Braille," Percept. Psychophys., vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 37-46, Jan. 1981.
25. R. Verrillo, A. Fraioli, and R. Smith, "Sensation magnitude of vibrotactile stimuli," Attention, Percept., Psychophys., vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 366-372, Nov. 1969.
26. M. van der Schuur, E. van der Heide, J. Feijen, and R. J. Gaymans, "Elastic behavior of flexible polyether (urethane-urea) foam materials," Polymer, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2721-2727, 2004. (Pubitemid 38373703)
27. J. M. Engel, J. Chen, C. Liu, and D. Bullen, "Polyurethane rubber allpolymer artificial hair cell sensor," J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 729-736, Aug. 2006. (Pubitemid 44251379)