Paper Info
Title
Development of an MEMS based biomimetic whisker sensor for tactile sensing
Abstract
It has been demonstrated that biological whisker sensing system has excellent capacity to achieve the pattern recognition, and whisker sensor based robot tactile perception has caused widespread concern. However, most of current existed whisker sensors are too large in size, and are difficult to be integrated into a small robot. In this paper, we proposed a MEMS based biomimetic whisker sensor inspired by rats, which integrates four sensing units on a square silicon wafer with a side length of 6.8mm and makes it possible to be installed on a small robot with similar size to a real rat. Our sensor measure the bending moment at the root of the whisker based on the piezoresistive effect. We have explored the range of functions that whisker arrays can serve on and it is shown that our whisker sensor can determine obstacle distance, and is also capable of gathering surface information including shape and texture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CBS46900.2019.9114501
2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
tactile sensing,biological whisker sensing system,whisker sensor based robot tactile perception,sensor measure,MEMS based biomimetic whisker sensor,surface information gathering,piezoresistive effect
Conference
978-1-7281-5074-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zihou Wei100.34
Qing Shi21810.32
Li Chang395.09
Shurui Yan400.34
Guanglu Jia512.38
Zhigang Zeng63962234.23
Qiang Huang726691.95
Toshio Fukuda82723818.58