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In this paper, a new type of flexible tactile sensor is designed based on the coupling principle of eddy current and piezoelectric effect. The tactile sensor is simple in structure and has the characteristics of flexibility. The contact surface of tactile sensor is designed as corrugation by imitating the physiological skin structure of human body. COMSOL Multiphysics is used to simulate and analyze the electromechanical response characteristics, dynamic force, transient force, and different direction tactile signals of the sensor. It can be obtained that the sensor has a large response range, high sensitivity and is suitable for the measurement of dynamic force. Vertical and sliding tactile signals have obvious characteristic differences so that the mechanical force can be detected by the output voltage signal of the sensor.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51775165).
R. Zhang (1995)---Research direction: Flexible tactile sensor.
Z. Zhu (1987)---Research direction: Magnetic coupling drive, mechanism optimi-zation design.
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Zhang, R., Zhu, Z., Cui, G., Li, P. (2021). Research on a New Flexible Tactile Sensor for Detecting Vertical and Sliding Tactile Signals. In: Liu, XJ., Nie, Z., Yu, J., Xie, F., Song, R. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89095-7_11
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