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Design of a Modular Tactile Sensor and Actuator Based on an Electrorheological Gel

Richard Voyles, Gary K. Fedder, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 13 - 17, April, 1996

Abstract

We present the design of a modular tactile sensor and actuator system for observing human demonstrations of contact tasks. The system consists of three interchangeable parts: an intrinsic tactile sensor for measuring net force/torque, an extrinsic tactile sensor for measuring contact distributions, and a tactile actuator for displaying tactile distributions. The novel components are the extrinsic sensor and tactile actuator which are "inside-out symmetric" to each other and employ an electrorheological gel for actuation.

BibTeX

@conference{Voyles-1996-14123,
author = {Richard Voyles and Gary K. Fedder and Pradeep Khosla},
title = {Design of a Modular Tactile Sensor and Actuator Based on an Electrorheological Gel},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {1996},
month = {April},
volume = {1},
pages = {13 - 17},
}