An ERT-based Robotic Skin with Sparsely Distributed Electrodes: Structure, Fabrication, and DNN-based Signal Processing

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Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) has previously been utilized to develop a large-scale tactile sensor because this approach enables the estimation of the conductivity distribution among the electrodes based on a known physical model. Such a sensor made with a stretchable material can conform to a curved surface. However, this sensor cannot fully cover a cylindrical surface because in such a configuration, the edges of the sensor must meet each other. The electrode configuration becomes irregular in this edge region, which may degrade the sensor performance. In this paper, we introduce an ERT-based robotic skin with evenly and sparsely distributed electrodes. For implementation, we sprayed a carbon nanotube (CNT)-dispersed solution to form a conductive sensing domain on a cylindrical surface. The electrodes were firmly embedded in the surface so that the wires were not exposed to the outside. The sensor output images were estimated using a deep neural network (DNN), which was trained with noisy simulation data. An indentation experiment revealed that the localization error of the sensor was 5.2 ± 3.3 mm, which is remarkable performance with only 30 electrodes. A frame rate of up to 120 Hz could be achieved with a sensing domain area of 90 cm
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Issue Date
2020-05-31
Language
English
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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020, pp.1617 - 1624

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10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197361
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/278933
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ME-Conference Papers(학술회의논문)
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