Covering a Robot Fingertip with uSkin: a Soft Electronic Skin with Distributed 3-axis Force Sensitive Elements for Robot Hands
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 609
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1109/LRA.2017.2734965
- Title of journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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- First page
- 124
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2377-3766
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper describes a novel soft electronic skin that, i) can measure 3D contact forces on multiple distributed contact points, and ii) can be mounted on multi-curved surfaces. At the time of publication, no other sensor in the literature could provide similar features. Generated by international collaboration with Waseda University in Japan (sugano@waseda.jp). The sensor was awarded the 2nd Place Prize in the IEEE ICRA 2017 Soft Component Technologies Challenge (http://www.icra2017.org/conference/robot-challenges#sub_4), and it has now become a commercial product (https://www.xelarobotics.com/product_2?lang=en). The paper has supported one successful EPSRC grant proposal: MAN^3 (EP/S00453X/1 2018-2021 300K£ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/S00453X/1).
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- Non-English
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