Development of A Vision-based Tactile Sensor

Abstract

Receiving tactile information from a slave-robot is a necessary component of telexistence with haptic display, but there are few tactile sensors that can measure the distribution of three-dimensional force vectors on a surface. For this reason, we developed a sensor that provides three-dimensional force distribution by detecting movement vectors in the transparent elastic body with a video camera. From a result of the experiment, it turned out this approach is effective.