The quantitative characterization of tactile perception, which is crucial in the design of tactile devices, requires the tested samples to have individually and precisely controlled properties associated with the senses. In this work, we microfabrica...
A Hybrid-Frequency Sampling Tactile Sensing System Based on a Flexible Piezoresistive Sensor Array is presented for reliable and real-time tactile perception under dynamic loading conditions. While recent studies have developed multi-channel tactile...
Subterranean locomotion challenges animals to maintain orientation and efficiently navigate confined spaces where vision is limited and local geometry is uncertain. Mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae), which regularly travel through self-excavated tunnels...
The tactile sensation is an important indicator of the added value of a product, and it is thus important to be able to evaluate this sensation quantitatively. Sensory evaluation is generally used to quantitatively evaluate the tactile sensation of a...
As higher spatiotemporal resolution tactile sensing systems are being developed for prosthetics, wearables, and other biomedical applications, they demand faster sampling rates and generate larger data streams. Sparsifying transformations can allevia...
The detection and quantification of fabric tactile sensations are crucial in textile production and marketing as they are closely linked to textile comfort and serve as key criteria for consumers when selecting fabrics. Previous studies have predomin...
Deducing the input signal for a tactile display to present the target surface (i.e., solving the inverse problem for tactile displays) is challenging. We proposed the encoding and presentation (EP) method in our prior work, where we encoded the targe...
Tactile sensation is one type of valuable feedback in evaluating a product. Conventionally, sensory evaluation is used to get direct subjective responses from the consumers, in order to improve the product’s quality. However, this method is a time-co...
This study proposes a tactile estimation method of molded plastic plates based on human tactile perception characteristics. Plastic plates are often used in consumer products. The tactile evaluation plays an important role in product development. How...
Few methodological approaches have been developed to measure lingual tactile sensitivity, and little information exists about the comparison between children and adults. The aims of the study were to: verify the cognitive and perceptive suitability o...
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Objective: To evaluate and compare the effects of conventional proprioceptive training and games with motion monitoring on plantar tactile sensitivity in older women. Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial, with 50 older women randomized int...
Dexterous robotic manipulation tasks depend on estimating the state of in-hand objects, particularly their orientation. Although cameras have been traditionally used to estimate the object’s pose, tactile sensors have recently been studied due...
With the further deepening of ageing in China, the ageing-in-place model is gaining more and more attention. In order to improve the quality of home life of the elderly, this paper takes age-friendly cabinets as the research object, from the perspect...
Electronic skin is an important means through which robots can obtain external information. A novel flexible tactile sensor capable of simultaneously detecting the contact position and force was proposed in this paper. The tactile sensor had a three-...
Reusing the tactile knowledge of some previously-explored objects (prior objects) helps us to easily recognize the tactual properties of new objects. In this paper, we enable a robotic arm equipped with multi-modal artificial skin, like humans, to ac...
Background—In aircraft engine maintenance, the majority of parts, including engine blades, are inspected visually for any damage to ensure a safe operation. While this process is called visual inspection, there are other human senses encompassed in t...
This paper proposes a new type of tactile transfer cell which can be effectively applied to robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). The proposed tactile device is manufactured from two smart materials, a magnetorheological fluid (MRF) and a...
In this study, a controllable tactile device capable of realizing repulsive forces from soft human tissues was proposed, and its effectiveness was verified through experimental tests. The device was fabricated using both porous polyurethane foam (PPF...
Although they have been under development for years and are attracting a lot of attention, vision-based tactile sensors still have common defects—the use of such devices to infer the direction of external forces is poorly investigated, and the...
A library of piano samples composed of binaural recordings and keyboard vibrations has been built, with the aim of sharing accurate data that in recent years have successfully advanced the knowledge on several aspects about the musical keyboard and i...
Prematurity is a major risk factor for perinatal stress and neonatal complications leading to systemic inflammation and abnormal mother–infant interactions. Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide regulating the inflammatory response and promoting moth...
Modern robots fall behind humans in terms of the ability to discriminate between textures of objects. This is due to the fact that robots lack the ability to detect the various tactile modalities that are required to discriminate between textures of...
Tactility is an essential perception for intelligent equipment to acquire external information. It can improve safety and performance during human-machine interactions. Based on the uniqueness theorem of the electrostatic field, a novel flexible film...
Optimising the sensitivity of a tactile sensor to a specific range of stimuli magnitude usually compromises the sensor’s widespread usage. This paper presents a novel soft tactile sensor capable of dynamically tuning its stiffness for enhanced...
In this paper, we develop a new sensor network system with a high sampling rate (over 500 Hz) based on the simultaneous synchronization of clock and data acquisition for integrating the data obtained from various sensors. Hence, we also propose a met...
The study applies Kansei engineering in analyzing the color and texture of leather footwear, utilizing neural network verification to mirror consumers’ visual and tactile imageries onto varieties of leather. This aids in the development of an a...
Accurate and automatic real-time recognition of shrimp with and without shells is the key to improve the efficiency of automatic peeling machines and reduce the labor cost. Existing methods cannot obtain excellent accuracy in the absence of target sa...
To address the evaluation requirements for agricultural robotic harvesting, this work presented a fruit-grasping assessment system based on tactile fusion analysis. Four piezoresistive pressure sensors were symmetrically integrated into the inner sur...
Fine motor function of the hands underpins a wide range of daily and occupational activities, and providing technology that supports such activities simply in everyday life is an important application of wearable computing. With the aim of improving...
Flexible tactile sensor can be integrated into artificial skin and applied in industrial robot and biomedical engineering. However, the presented tactile sensors still have challenge in increasing sensitivity to expand the sensor’s application. Aimin...
In this study, we aimed to relate anthropometric parameters and sensory processing in typically developing Brazilian children diagnosed with a pediatric feeding disorder (PFD). This was a retrospective study of typically developing children with a PF...
In order to solve the problem in which most currently existing research focuses on the binary tactile attributes of objects and ignores identifying the strength level of tactile attributes, this paper establishes a tactile data set of the strength le...
Body image disturbances (BIDs) have been widely studied using virtual reality (VR) devices that induce a full body illusion (FBI) and allow manipulation of the individual’s perceptual and affective experiences of the body. This study aimed to a...
Many hands-on tasks remain difficult to fully automate because they require human dexterity and flexible object handling. Data gloves offer a promising interface for sensing hand–object interactions, but most prior systems focus on gesture reco...
We present and evaluate the concept of FeelMusic and evaluate an implementation of it. It is an augmentation of music through the haptic translation of core musical elements. Music and touch are intrinsic modes of affective communication that are phy...
Fresh samples of Longissimus thoracis of Charolais (n = 12), Romagnola (n = 15), Limousine (n = 77), and crossbreed (n = 62) animals were evaluated with different storage periods (0, 4, 9, and 14 days). Proximate analysis (i.e., pH, humidity, color,...
A low-noise and monolithic array tactile sensor, in which a tactile sensing unit, a low-noise analog front end (AFE), and a high-resolution delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (
It is well known that the rheological properties of magnetorheological (MR) material change under a magnetic field. So far, most works on MR materials have been oriented toward actuating characteristics instead of sensing functions. In this work, to...
This study aims to quantify wearers’ perceived sensory/tactile comfort responses to clinical and sub-clinical compression socks before, during, and after several activities (postural stability tasks, donning, and doffing). Through purposive sam...
Tactile internet applications allow robotic devices to be remotely controlled over a communication medium with an unnoticeable time delay. In bilateral communication, the acceptable round trip latency is usually 1 ms up to 10 ms, depending on the app...
Driven by the high-end furniture industry’s demand for skin-tactile decorative boards, UV inkjet printing shows potential for wood-based surface finishing. Using primer-treated inkjet-printed melamine-faced panels, this study compared tradition...
Food-related sensory alterations are prevalent among cancer patients and negatively impact their relationship with food, quality of life, and overall health outcome. In addition to taste and smell, food perception is also influenced by somatosensatio...
Robots execute diverse load operations, including carrying, lifting, tilting, and moving objects, involving load changes or transfers. This dynamic process can result in the shift of interactive operations from stability to instability. In this paper...
Tumors in the human prostate are usually stiffer compared to surrounding non-malignant glandular tissue, and tactile resonance sensors measuring stiffness can be used to detect prostate cancer. To explore this further, we used a tactile resonance sen...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the administration of two egg white hydrolysates on glucose metabolism complications related to Metabolic Syndrome (MS) in Zucker fatty rats (ZFR). ZFR were given 750 mg/kg/day of egg white hydr...
In current industrial production, robots have increasingly been taking the place of manual workers. With the improvements in production efficiency, accidents that involve operators occur frequently. In this study, a flexible sensor system was designe...
Piezoelectric actuators have achieved remarkable progress in many fields, being able to generate forces or displacements to perform scanning, tuning, manipulating, tactile sensing or delivering functions. In this work, two piezoelectric PZT (lead zir...
Good zoo animal welfare is commonly promoted with environmental enrichment; however, some species are less likely to be offered enrichment than others. This study tested the effect of enrichment on a group of scarlet ibises from Zoomarine Algarve, Po...
For suppressing the crosstalk problem due to wire resistances and contacted resistances of the long flexible cables in tactile sensing systems, we present a novel two-wire fast readout approach for the two-dimensional resistive sensor array in shared...
This paper focuses on the development and validation of an automatic learning system for the classification of tactile data in form of vibro-tactile (accelerometer) and audio (microphone) data for texture recognition. A novel combination of features...
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