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Vibrotactile stimulation has been widely used in haptics. This paper describes a method of quantifying roughness sensation by performing assigned patterns of vibrotactile stimuli on human finger pads. In order to design the stimulus parameters, an active touch model for human finger pad is fabricated. To validate the model, a roughness sensation experiment is conducted using 11 selected types of sandpapers. The frequencies and amplitudes of vibrotactile stimuli are derived from the active touch model. The results show that a strong relationship exists between the stimulus patterns and perceived roughness sensation. Also, we prove that the correlation between the rates of growth in human sensation and increasing stimuli intensities matches psychological disciplines.
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Qiu, Z., Zhang, D., Zhu, X. (2013). Quantifying Roughness Sensation by an Active Touch Model for Vibrotactile Stimulation. In: Lee, J., Lee, M.C., Liu, H., Ryu, JH. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40852-6_45
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