Title
Wiforce: Wireless Sensing And Localization Of Contact Forces On A Space Continuum
Abstract
Contact force is a natural way for humans to interact with the physical world around us. However, most of our interactions with the digital world are largely based on a simple binary sense of touch (contact or no contact). Similarly, when interacting with robots to perform complex tasks, such as surgery, richer force information that includes both magnitude and contact location is important for task performance. To address these challenges, we present the design and fabrication of WiForce which is a 'wireless' sensor, sentient to contact force magnitude and location. WiForce achieves this by transducing force magnitude and location, to phase changes of an incident RF signal of a backscattering tag. The phase changes are thus modulated into the backscattered RF signal, which enables measurement of force magnitude and contact location by inferring the phases of the reflected RF WiForce's sensor is designed to support wide-band frequencies all the way up to 3 GHz. We evaluate the force sensing wirelessly in different environments, including through phantom tissue, and achieve force accuracy of 0,3 N and contact location accuracy of 0.6 nun
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKED SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Agrim Gupta110.68
Cédric Girerd200.34
Manideep Dunna351.44
Qiming Zhang400.34
Raghav Subarraman500.34
Tania Morimoto600.34
Dinesh Bharadia782247.06