2 results about "Senses touch" patented technology

This invention discloses a transparent high-precision touch-sensitive skin for robots and its fabrication method, belonging to the field of robot perception and human-computer interaction technology. The skin is designed with two architectures: one is a single-functional layer structure integrating a transparent mesh touch layer to achieve high-precision touch positioning; the other is a dual-functional layer structure with a superimposed transparent pressure-sensing touch layer, simultaneously achieving touch positioning and precise pressure quantization. This invention uses a fine metal mesh with a line width of 2-20 μm and a spacing of 300-600 μm as the sensing unit, achieving a positioning accuracy of ≤0.1 mm while ensuring ≥84% light transmittance. Reliable interlayer bonding, pressure conduction, and electrical isolation are achieved through a transparent optical adhesive layer of a specific thickness. This skin combines high transparency, high sensing accuracy, excellent flexibility, and environmental adaptability, and can be widely used in service robots, medical robots, and industrial robots on complex curved surfaces requiring visual tactile interaction.

An adaptive tactile feedback touchpad with customizable texture simulation adapts feedback to provide realistic, nuanced sensations associated with different textures by sensing touch input attributes, such as input location and force, and determining additional touch attributes, such as direction and velocity, from a time-series set of touch inputs. Touchpad haptic actuators implemented in one or more axes of a touchpad can be controlled with varying amplitudes (e.g., weights) to provide consistent tactile sensations regardless of the location and direction that a user touches and moves a finger on the touchpad. A haptic waveform can be selected, for example, based on the simulated texture and input velocity while a waveform amplitude can be determined based on input force, direction, and velocity. The haptic actuator(s) can be controlled by the selected waveform and determined amplitude to provide realistic tactile sensations regardless where the user interacts with the touchpad.