High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components
Soft tactile sensors are soft and sufficiently flexible for attachment to a robot's gripper to enhance human‐like sensory capabilities. However, existing tactile sensors exhibit large size and a limited force measurement range. This article presents a novel design of a new soft tactile sensor f...
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| description | Soft tactile sensors are soft and sufficiently flexible for attachment to a robot's gripper to enhance human‐like sensory capabilities. However, existing tactile sensors exhibit large size and a limited force measurement range. This article presents a novel design of a new soft tactile sensor for a robotic gripper, incorporating a sandwich‐like multilayered structure, together with a deep learning (DL) model, which overcomes the limitations of traditional sensors. The structure consists of three distinct layers: a 15 wt% iron magnetorheological elastomer, a flexible printable circuit board layer equipped with three‐dimensional Hall sensors (TLE493D; Infineon), and permanent magnets. Additionally, a multilayer perceptron network that can classify the loading state is adopted for the DL model. This new tactile sensor is capable of performing three distinct functions simultaneously: measurement of normal forces up to 3.73 kgf, identification of the precise location of force occurrence by subdivision into intervals of 2.5 mm, and differentiation between a wide (≈8 mm) and narrow (≈2 mm) contacted surface area. This newly developed soft tactile sensor has considerable potential for improvement in the performance of robotic grippers through its high accuracy, resolution, and large measurement range, as demonstrated by experimentation with the sensor attached to a real gripper. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-909d80e3d3514a01bb3345839904965a2025-01-21T07:26:27ZengWileyAdvanced Intelligent Systems2640-45672025-01-0171n/an/a10.1002/aisy.202400275High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical ComponentsBuyong Lim0Jungwon Yoon1School of Integrated Technology Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Gwangju 61005 Republic of KoreaSchool of Integrated Technology Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Gwangju 61005 Republic of KoreaSoft tactile sensors are soft and sufficiently flexible for attachment to a robot's gripper to enhance human‐like sensory capabilities. However, existing tactile sensors exhibit large size and a limited force measurement range. This article presents a novel design of a new soft tactile sensor for a robotic gripper, incorporating a sandwich‐like multilayered structure, together with a deep learning (DL) model, which overcomes the limitations of traditional sensors. The structure consists of three distinct layers: a 15 wt% iron magnetorheological elastomer, a flexible printable circuit board layer equipped with three‐dimensional Hall sensors (TLE493D; Infineon), and permanent magnets. Additionally, a multilayer perceptron network that can classify the loading state is adopted for the DL model. This new tactile sensor is capable of performing three distinct functions simultaneously: measurement of normal forces up to 3.73 kgf, identification of the precise location of force occurrence by subdivision into intervals of 2.5 mm, and differentiation between a wide (≈8 mm) and narrow (≈2 mm) contacted surface area. This newly developed soft tactile sensor has considerable potential for improvement in the performance of robotic grippers through its high accuracy, resolution, and large measurement range, as demonstrated by experimentation with the sensor attached to a real gripper.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.2024002753D Hall sensordeep learning modelforce‐measuring sensormagnetorheological elastomerrobotic gripperssoft tactile sensors |
| spellingShingle | Buyong Lim Jungwon Yoon High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components Advanced Intelligent Systems 3D Hall sensor deep learning model force‐measuring sensor magnetorheological elastomer robotic grippers soft tactile sensors |
| title | High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components |
| title_full | High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components |
| title_fullStr | High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components |
| title_full_unstemmed | High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components |
| title_short | High‐Load Capable Soft Tactile Sensors: Incorporating Magnetorheological Elastomer for Accurate Contact Detection and Classification of Asymmetric Mechanical Components |
| title_sort | high load capable soft tactile sensors incorporating magnetorheological elastomer for accurate contact detection and classification of asymmetric mechanical components |
| topic | 3D Hall sensor deep learning model force‐measuring sensor magnetorheological elastomer robotic grippers soft tactile sensors |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400275 |
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