Development of Flexible Robot Skin for Safe and Natural Human⁻Robot Collaboration.

ABSTRACT: For industrial manufacturing, industrial robots are required to work together with human counterparts on certain special occasions, where human workers share their skills with robots. Intuitive human⁻robot interaction brings increasing safety challenges, which can be properly addressed by using sensor-based active control technology. In this article, we designed and fabricated a three-dimensional flexible robot skin made by the piezoresistive nanocomposite based on the need for enhancement of the security performance of the collaborative robot. The robot skin endowed the YuMi robot with a tactile perception like human skin. The developed sensing unit in the robot skin showed the one-to-one correspondence between force input and resistance output (percentage change in impedance) in the rang

SUBMITTER: Pang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266199 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature